How to Brace a Deck Post - Fine Homebuilding
Bracing is required to keep everything aligned until the posts are permanently secured. Bracing framing temporarily. Shown here are three common bracing strategies, depending on the …
Diagonal bracing for free-standing decks - Fine Homebuilding
2005年5月22日 · First off, diagonally brace the platform itself, either with diagonal decking, or with a 1x or 2x fastened diagonally across the bottom of the deck. If the posts are set into the …
Solutions to stiffen freestanding roof - Fine Homebuilding
2004年10月25日 · The knee bracing is down 4 ft. off the post top - these are 8-9 ft. tall posts so larger knee bracing means much head banging (the bad kind) entering and exiting off the …
shaking deck question - Fine Homebuilding
2005年10月13日 · On the outer beam, run your knee bracing from post to beam at a 45' angle - the longer the knee brace, the more stability.Do as the other poster above suggested and run …
diagonal bracing under deck joists - Fine Homebuilding
2006年5月24日 · Fossil,The old deck had vertical diagonal blocking, which IS BRACING. Known as "cut-in diagonal blocking," it acts mainly in compression, but going both ways in a vee or x …
How to construct 3 ft overhang that d… - Fine Homebuilding
2001年2月27日 · We braced the knee wall back to the floor framing every four feet. The entire frame proved to be very solid. It did use a lot of wood (36 foot tji's) but was half the price of the …
lateral support at post to beam? - Fine Homebuilding
2009年10月22日 · If the deck is already built and has a 3-2"x10" built up beam sitting on 6"x6" posts sitting on post bases bearing on 10" diameter concrete piers. The beam is about 7'-0" …
MUST a Deck be Attached to the House? - Fine Homebuilding
2014年7月12日 · Attaching the deck to the house provides one degree of ridigity that otherwise must be provided by the deck structure itself. This can, eg, eliiminate the need for knee …
How to Calculate Deck Cantilevers - Fine Homebuilding
Synopsis: In this article, Mike Guertin takes an in-depth look at prescriptive deck-building codes when it comes to one of the deck’s most basic components: joists. He describes how joist …
Deckposts - in the ground or on piers? - Fine Homebuilding
2009年7月3日 · The usual reason for adding knee braces and the like after the fact is because the deck is "wobbly".I'll agree that a free-standing deck needs more bracing, but if it's a high deck …