Timeline for How to support a 2nd floor deck to fix improperly secured deck ledger
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| Sep 29, 2023 at 23:31 | comment | added | popham | I think that I see a seam in your siding that extends the line at the door bottom to across the deck surface. Am I hallucinating that? If that line is there and it runs perfectly parallel to the deck, then I suspect that the last person to fix the ledger installed it parallel to that line. If all of that speculation proved true, then I would defend that person. The human eye notices out of parallel lines when they're close by each other like that. It would annoy me every time I looked if I saw the surface of the deck running out of parallel with that line regardless of levelness. | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 22:14 | comment | added | Yvonne Ayala | There are stairs on one side of the deck. This is just speculation but I think that when the previous work was done that the stairs atleast partially supported that side of the deck and why the other side is the one sagging. | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 21:02 | comment | added | popham | "Which gives access to the apartment"? Are there stairs? | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 20:00 | comment | added | SteveSh | @Yvonne Ayala - I meant as a permanent solution. If you decide to repair/make right the ledger board attachment, you're going to have to do something like that anyway to temporarily support that end of the deck while the ledger board work is done. | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 19:36 | answer | added | popham | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 19:25 | comment | added | popham | @SteveSh, freestanding without attachment to the home would imply no lateral resistance for the deck. The addition of lateral bracing and the likely necessity of a design professional is probably a deal-killer. | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 19:20 | comment | added | Yvonne Ayala | Do you mean adding a row of post and beam as a temporary support system or as a permanent alternative? | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 19:16 | history | edited | Yvonne Ayala | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 29, 2023 at 19:00 | comment | added | popham | A covered deck mitigates the need for a well detailed ledger board. If the damage can be hidden (with flashing, say) and everything is still structurally sound, then it might be cost effective to put a canopy over the deck instead of fixing the ledger detail. | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 18:57 | comment | added | popham | How much repair work is needed? If it's bad enough, I'd be tempted to remove the deck boards, nail a 2x4 parallel to the ledger and 18" away from the ledger, sawzall the framing free of the ledger, and put the floor framing aside. | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 18:44 | comment | added | SteveSh | Might be easier to put another set of posts, maybe 1 foot out from the wall and put a beam on top of that for the joists to rest on. That eliminates the tieing-a-ledger-board-into-the-house problem. | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 18:44 | comment | added | DIY75 | how about a picture of the problem | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 18:34 | history | asked | Yvonne Ayala | CC BY-SA 4.0 |