"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,

Larry

The skirting framing is built specifically to hold the skirting. Not a
tough job for the framing.

In so much that it was not designed to hold a heavy deck too I think I
would go free standing and cantilever over to close the gap.