On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 4:16:15 PM UTC-4, -MIKE- wrote:
On 5/13/15 2:38 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 1:50:41 PM UTC-4, -MIKE- wrote:
On 5/13/15 12:40 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 1:06:26 PM UTC-4, -MIKE- wrote:
On 5/13/15 6:12 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 1:20:40 AM UTC-4, Leon 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,

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.

My town had no problem approving my plans to attach my deck to
my house via the rim joist, and my town is not known for being
lenient.

The city of Hopkins, MN thinks it's fine too:

http://www.hopkinsmn.com/home/buildi...ger-board2.gif




Apples and oranges. The rim joist on you house is sitting directly over
a foundation that is engineered to hold the weight of an entire
house.


Already addressed...3 hours ago.


I would think you could assume I was reading through the replies one by
one and replied before I saw Leon address that.


I would think you could assume that not reading the entire thread before responding causes members to post redundant responses. :-)


This, from the guy who didn't even read the original post. :-p

"Mis-reading" is not the same thing as "not even reading".

As I said to Leon:

"...my misreading of the term "skirting"."

A brain fart is all that it was.



The last thing we need on the ole interweb is redundant information. It would start to get really messy. ;-)


LOL