Deck Designer
decks designed so far
Put your deck on the satellite view of your house. Get the framing, footings, stairs and a full shopping list — sized from the national residential code — and a plan set you can take to your building department.
No address handy? Just type the deck size in the questions.
Framing, foundation, section, stairs and decking
Drawn to scale from your deck. The same drawings go on the printed plan set.
Where the deck sits on your property
Sheet 1 of the plan set. It is a line drawing — no satellite image is printed. Add your lot lines from your property survey if your town wants them.
Everything to buy, grouped the way the lumberyard sells it
Quantities only — the price range sits once, at the top. Free to print or email any time.
The plan set on letter paper, for your building department
Site plan, framing plan, foundation and stairs, and the shopping list — each with a title block and the disclaimer.
Change what the reviewer asked for, then re-print
Every number a plan reviewer usually pushes back on can be changed here. The drawings and the shopping list redraw, and the plan set becomes a new revision with the reason printed on every sheet.
Saved to your account
Not an engineered or architectural drawing. The Deck Designer builds a starting-point plan from the prescriptive tables of the 2021 International Residential Code (section R507) and the American Wood Council's DCA 6 guide, using assumed soil, lumber, frost depth and loads that may not match your site. It has not been reviewed by a licensed engineer or architect. Have it reviewed by your building department, and by a licensed professional where your town requires one, before you build. AerialQuote is not responsible for construction or for compliance with local codes. See how every number is worked out and our terms.