The roof is held up by five posts (and one side attached directly to the house). I replaced all the old posts and the new posts are secured to these concrete piers. The old posts just sat directly on the old concrete, that endgrain soaking up the water. We'll be flooded before the bottoms of these posts get wet.
The first one here extends beyond the edge of the deck because the post is directly under the frame of the roof. That frame dictated where I'd have to put the post, though I could have built the deck frame wider like I did on the north side of the deck where corner got nipped off and the ten foot deckboards were used. But I didn't, leaving me with this ... beauty mark. The other posts are represented here.
They're all at different heights relative to the surface of the deck--another manifestation of the unevenness of the underlying foundation. These piers are directly on the concrete patios wherever they needed to be placed and they're all the same height. The frame and deck got made level at the top. This shows the varying thickness of the deck structure.
Now I'm going to hide these concrete blocks.
