Your deck will depend on the load carrying capacity of these screws or bolts to support hundreds of pounds and prevent the deck from ripping away from the house.
Roof ledger bolting.
Bolt with spacer option over the siding unless it s t 1 11.
Make it the full width of the porch or slightly wider depending on your porch design.
To solve this the upper bolt needs to be lowered.
Ledger bolting limitations bolts are not allowed to penetrate the ledger in the regions shown in yellow except as shown at the upper bolt where half the bolt can be in the no bolt region.
Make sure the bolts are compatible with pressure treated wood.
But are they a one to one replacement for lag screws following the number and placement of fasteners specified in the code.
Bolts and screws must be located 2 in.
Properly installing a ledger board for your deck is one of the most important structural components of building a safe and strong deck.
Determine how high it must be to provide an adequate slope to the roof.
Failure of the ledger can be caused by too few or undersized fasteners or by decay in the ledger or band joist.
Bolting a 2x12 ledger to a 2x12 rim joist according to code is a surprising exercize.
Down from top and up from bottom of ledger and staggered up down.
Most residential decks are supported on one side by a ledger that is bolted or lagged to the home s band joist.
It is very important that you use the correct size and type of fasteners to install your ledger board.
This connection is critical since a failure here can cause a deck to collapse.
Plus you need to double fasteners at ledger butts and ends.
Locate a position for a header or ledger board.
At the end of glenn mathewson s handling lateral loads january february 2012 he proposes connecting a 2x12 ledger one step down from a door threshold something many of us in snow country regularly do.
A house attached patio roof takes advantage of the house s structure by supporting one end of the roof on a ledger mounted horizontally to the house.
At first glance it seems impossible to bolt because the minimum distance seems lower than the maximum distance.
These 18 articles will teach you how to install flashing and bolt the ledger connection to the house rim.
Find the wall studs or roof trusses that will have to support the ledger.
Reader questions bolting ledgers to studs.
No farther than 5 inches from the end of every ledger piece but no closer than 2 inches.
The light colored area shows where the first bolt can be placed.
Max gap between ledger and wall sheathing is in so no you can t use the in.
To step down bring the lower bolt to its lower limit and attach.