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What were they thinkin....

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This deck is next to my clients house and I noticed this while having lunch yesterday. There are simpson post to beam connectors there, but are hard to see because they've been stained over.
Only thing I can figure is maybe they had a little sway in the deck and wanted to tighten it up a little bit....or that beam is lighter than air and didnt want it floating away.:laughing:

Pretty expensive hardware for little or no benefit.
 

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It looks like the top of that post has been added to about a 1 1/2 or so, maybe that was the reason they put them there. I may be wrong but that is what it looks like to me.
 
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Thanks Gary...Actually I thought it was one of those lateral load devices. First time I'd seen them used that way. Not a lot of seismic actvity here in Pa.

I think they'd been better off to save the holdowns and put the money towards lags or bolts for the railing posts as they're only nailed on.
 
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The hanger on the end of the cantilevered joist is interesting to say the least. Are all the rest hangered? Or just at the post ones?

Could use some window flashing on top the built-up beam for water protection. Didn't need the plywood in beam unless over-spanned per Deck Code and trying to get more strength. Toe-nails at the joists are fine only if deck is attached to the house, which it sounds like. (Fig. 6) The rim appears to be cedar as it looks thinner than other framing, could be these old tired eyes...
You're only a 17% chance of seismic activity, I'm in 67-83% here. Scroll down: http://publicecodes.citation.com/icod/irc/2009/icod_irc_2009_3_sec001_par004.htm

Figure #6: http://www.awc.org/Publications/DCA/DCA6/DCA6-09.pdf

Ply layers: http://www.finehomebuilding.com/how-to/qa/using-plywood-to-build-up-beams.aspx

Gary
 
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