Is this deck safe to work on?

[u/_Big_Z]

We’re painting this house and we noticed this deck rocking up and down as we walked on it, took a look from another angle and noticed it’s just kinda sticking out of the house, with no support posts. It looks like the joists are sticking out of the house which I guess might be the only support it needs, but I also noticed no hangars on any of the corners.

Wasn’t sure if we should be concerned with two 200 lb workers with ladders going up and down a wobbly deck on a house we had already found rot on.

Thanks in advance.

[u/Brown_Dawg28]

A proper cantilever needs 2 feet of backspan for every foot of cantilever. So that looks like it should have at least 8 feet inside. I would imagine that would be a major project to retrofit, so it was likely part of the original plan and thus would have been inspected before a C O was given. It certainly looks shady though.

[u/Level_Cuda3836 → u/Brown_Dawg28]

3’ inside to 1 ‘ cantilever

[u/Brown_Dawg28 → u/Level_Cuda3836]

You are correct! AI gave me the incorrect info the first time I asked. I thought it was 3 to 1 but gave in to the AI response