Enter your address and we pull your lot lines, setbacks, and house footprint from public records. Design your deck on your real property, then download a complete permit drawing set with IRC structural calculations. No graph paper, no drafter, no waiting.
Have a property survey? Uploading it is the most accurate start. If lookup cannot find you and you have no survey, draw your lot manually. Free to design, and free to preview every sheet.
We find your parcel in public records: lot shape, dimensions, zoning setbacks, and your house footprint. Confirm it with one click, upload a survey and let our AI read it, or draw the lot yourself.
Size your deck right on your property. Add wings, corners, and stairs. Joists, beams, posts, and footings size themselves to code as you work, and setback problems surface immediately instead of at the permit counter.
Preview every sheet free: site plan, deck plan, framing, elevations, details, notes, and checklist, all drawn from your design. Submit the set to your building department when you are ready.
A complete deck permit submission set. Every sheet carries a title block with your address and parcel number, and every structural member cites the 2021 IRC section it was sized from. These are not stock previews. The sheets are drawn live by the same pipeline that will draw yours.
The full set redraws from your design as you work.
SimpleBlueprints is in beta and everything is free while we are here. A drafter charges $150 to $500 and takes days.
In most jurisdictions, yes. Decks attached to a house, taller than 30 inches above grade, or larger than about 200 square feet typically require a building permit, which means a site plan and structural drawings. Your local building department makes the final call, so it is always worth a phone call before you build.
Most departments want a site plan showing your lot, house, the proposed deck, and setback distances, plus a framing plan, elevations, structural details for footings, posts, and the ledger connection, and general notes. SimpleBlueprints generates all of these from one design session, in one drawing set.
We look up your parcel in public records to get your lot boundary, dimensions, and zoning setbacks, and detect your house footprint from public mapping data. Nothing is submitted anywhere. You confirm and adjust everything yourself before designing. If records for your lot are thin, upload your property survey and our AI will read it, or draw the lot manually.
Joists, beams, posts, and footings are sized from the 2021 International Residential Code prescriptive tables (R507), adjusted for your snow load and frost depth, with the code sections printed on your plans. Plans support your permit application, and the building department always has final authority.
Yes. Contractors and deck builders use SimpleBlueprints to turn a site visit into a submittable drawing set the same day, with a title block carrying the project address and parcel number. Run as many properties as you need, and revise a set as many times as the plan examiner asks.
Come back, revise your design, and download again. Revisions are free. Departments usually mark up exactly what they want changed, and most changes take minutes in the designer.