I also do Facebook… When a “friend” shares someone else’s post I see them. An acquaintance of one of my friends just posted pictures of his almost completed deck project. I am guessing 1,000’s of dollars worth of lumber and much time. This acquaintance, in a rural suburb, has little experience in construction and probably did not pull permits - he may not have needed them.
In any event, I noticed several code violations in its construction. One of these was the attachment method of his beams to his posts; bolts only are no longer allowed. And his method of hanging his joists; no joist hangers, he toenailed from the inside and face nailed from the outside of the rim joists. He does have an interior beam (still bolts only), so the joists do not depend solely on the nails.
Do I contact this guy I have never met and tell him, tell my friend and leave it up to him, stay out of other people’s business?