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A few years ago I was asked by my great uncle to fix the deck at his house. It was originally a 3 foot deep deck that cantilevered off the house, which he later expanded to a 10 foot deep deck with a double 2x12 beam supported at the end by columns and proper footings and whatnot. A later addition to this was a bunch of sloped corrugated steel panels beneath the structure, so that the patio underneath the deck stayed dry. Well, years of leaves and other detritus built up on top of the suspended roof and created the perfect environment for rot and mold. The double 2x12 deck beam looked like it was solid, but I was able to poke through it with a Bic pen. There was so little support that most of the deck was cantilevering off the house, 10 feet away. The really scary part came when I had to replace one of the joists that tied in to the house, discovering that the joists did not actually tie into the floor joists but were simply toe-nailed on to the sheathing. A 10 foot cantilever was supported by a few toe-nails, the thickness of the siding making up most of its support. How this held up to the weight of any person or heavy Minnesota snow I have no idea. It was a pain in the rear end to fix it up properly, but 5 years later she still looks purdy.
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Sep 7, 2011 02:33
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