I find it’s handy to have shims available to make minimal leveling adjustments. With your deck frame complete ... acts as a barrier between wood and galvanized metal, and protects against ...
or a wood lookalike that's maintenance-free? Building a deck is not a one-stop shop by any means. It is likely you will have to approach this job one step at a time: clearing and levelling the ground; ...
But now the time had arrived to build a new deck ... the deck framing was pressure-treated 4×6, that old fasteners were holding well and that new fasteners were going into solid wood.