With lumber prices the way they are building a 12 by 30 foot deck was just out of the question. This saved us about $4,000 just to make a pallet deck and you can basically just put them up on gravel and blocks and an easier way you can pull the pallet support and put them together like this but we did find it was easier just to cut strips and put them between. So that does save a lot of time if you want to do it that way and we burned them just so they wouldn't rot in the weather. The only other thing we have to do is you put them together on the outside with scabs and you're done. The leveling does take a long time but this saved us probably $4,000.