Right - when the big bear comes on the deck - let it crash and not the
house!

If a tree falls on deck sideways to the house a ledger board would rip
the house a new one. Therefore

Free Standing and close enough to have simple step onto.

Also, consider having the deck slightly lower than the door - e.g. 1
step - so when it snows you can shovel out without being locked in by
a layer of ice on the deck.

Lots of stuff to figure upon.

Martin

On 5/12/2015 11:05 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 5/12/2015 11:39 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Gramps' shop wrote:
I think I mentioned earlier that my son has drafted me to help build
a fairly large deck at his cabin. The cabin is a manufactured home
elevated about two feet over a concrete slab. There is skirting
running around the perimeter of the structure. The skirting is
framed in 2x4s with verticle studs 16 inches on center.

So ... here's the question: can we attach the ledger board to the
skirting framework? Or is a better approach a free-standing deck?

Thanks,




If in doubt - just build it free standing.


That would be my choice. When I think of "cabin", I think of something
in the woods or other remote place. Maybe severe winter weather. I
think that a large deck on a manufactured home could be stressed by
movement, weather, mudslides, earthquakes, tsunami, tornadoes and even
the occasional rainbow. I'd opt to not have it attached, but well
supported.