got a deck job coming up in an area I have not worked before. Codes for this area say no attachment of ledger to brick vaneer. I couldn't find anything that said I can't attach the ledger if I bolt into the rim joist and not the brick and not one diagram showed this method. yet it's how 99% are done in this area. I couldn't understand not allowing brick fixings only but going through to the rim joist they really think that it's not good enough fixing?
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On homes inspection tonight they bolted through brick and through concrete block with about 20 inch carriage bolts.
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You just gutta love that guy.
The little ear ring is real cute dontch think ? On the other hand a tv show gig would pay real well.
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The little ear ring is real cute dontch think ? On the other hand a tv show gig would pay real well.
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My architect said the other day build a lower ledger on the foundation wall all and stud up to the upper ledger and brace down to the bottom of the footings making sure your first line of post is within about 4 or 5 ft from the house this will solve down force and pull away from house,similar to what anther guy on here said.
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dig your post, 48" deep, 2 feet from house, put post in ground on top of 6" of gravel and 10" thick slug of concrete, back fill, tamp the ground. This gives lots of lateral stability. 2 rows of post makes the deck free standing. Than there is no ledger requirement.
walkout or daylight window basements, with a 4' deep footing will easily, get to "virgin" soil. Anything closer than 2' will hit the drain tile and pea gravel fill that's around the house; anything further away from the house will require some sort of attachment to the house, 3' might work; it gets down to the front and back cantilever allowed wherever it is you are working. 2' away from the house, when properly placed, does not block precious windows and doors that some people think they will be staring out of from their basements.
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walkout or daylight window basements, with a 4' deep footing will easily, get to "virgin" soil. Anything closer than 2' will hit the drain tile and pea gravel fill that's around the house; anything further away from the house will require some sort of attachment to the house, 3' might work; it gets down to the front and back cantilever allowed wherever it is you are working. 2' away from the house, when properly placed, does not block precious windows and doors that some people think they will be staring out of from their basements.
steve scholl
The code here doesn't allow that - 3' is the minimum.
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I believe if you check, that if you dig closer than 3' you must go to undisturbed soil, because closer than 3' is the backfilll. there are times when there is brick we have to dig 8-9' deep holes because they won't allow ANY ATTACHMENT TO THE BRICK
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When I build a deck on any structure where it has brick or stone or block i do a cantileever to the house. I make it freestanding and then have no flashing issues or structural integrety issues. The only time i attach to the house is on a siding home where i then take off the siding and attach properly and flash properly.
I believe if you READ what YOU wrote, you MIGHT be able to understand that what you said was WRONG...
You've contradicted yourself steve scholl.
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i don't see it. Maybe you should be more clear.
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All this talk about bolting ledgers into brick and it not being code is fine. But, from 1983 and up I've bolted ledgers to brick many many times using lag bolts and shields until code changed and the decks are still standing. Just makes you wonder. I'm not saying to do that and go against code but I read people saying that bolting a ledger to brick will fail, is simple not true in all cases.
It doesn't surprise me that you can't figure it out.
I might have to give Steve a bit of support here. Depending on how you read it (and of course how it was meant), he did have a qualification in there about walk-out basements. A 4' deep post in front of a walk-out would normally hit virgin soil, regardless of 2'/3'. :thumbsup:I believe if you READ what YOU wrote, you MIGHT be able to understand that what you said was WRONG...
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