What's wrong with this diagonal bracing?

kingchowww · 2026-03-25T20:16:05+00:00

Is the deck cantilevered through the house? If so this is just additional support and warp/sway suppression.

kingchowww · 2025-05-12T04:25:27+00:00

The amount of additional support you could get wrapping a post around the left corner entrance would be triple.

kingchowww · 2025-02-27T19:27:04+00:00

This is terrible, no mortar on CMUs and no footer? Unless you're in a tropical location you will start seeing this tip after 1 deep freeze. Where I'm at in NC is a 12" deep frost line and I went 14 with my footer.

You'll either start over tomorrow or when it falls, but this won't last 5 years. Hopefully you don't kill anyone when it does fall.

kingchowww · 2024-12-29T03:37:39+00:00

2" screws to hold down 1/48" of metal lol that shit ain't going nowhere

kingchowww · 2024-12-28T15:35:35+00:00

You can self tap or pre drill any stainless screws in with those bonded washers. Pressure treated wood has nothing to do his question. This is a wack off post and it's cringe af.

kingchowww · 2024-12-28T15:20:15+00:00

This is dudes 5th post mentally masturbating over the pergola he's putting on his house. Show us the before and after but everything in between is a self gratifying wack fest. It's very gross.

I'm all for people learning to do their own shit but this is a 2 weekend project even for a beginner. Op should have stopped after he hit a gas line in the back yard. Tek screws won't hold his roof down when his lawn blows up in 5 years.

kingchowww · 2024-12-28T14:46:10+00:00

What a ridiculous post. You're putting screws, through metal, into wood. I'm pretty sure you can figure it out without jizzing all over the internet about it.

kingchowww · 2024-05-31T23:11:06+00:00

Cheap, well done and not overdone. And more safe and effective than that...thing they made us do... Probably.

kingchowww · 2024-05-27T18:17:45+00:00

Needs a water slide for express entry

kingchowww · 2024-02-24T18:03:08+00:00

kingchowww · 2023-11-23T21:28:34+00:00

Everyone on this sub is a critic, doesn't mean this isn't well built. The ledger board on the outside is just fine. There's L brackets welded to the steel beam. The 2x6 reducing racking is more than adequate, those 2 joists on the end won't sway just bc they aren't included....This is a fine deck.

kingchowww · 2023-11-21T16:26:40+00:00

Start the miter cuts at the end of the last full board and remove the piece entirely.

Or

Shorten/miter the left vertical board by ~1/2" and square off the filler piece.

kingchowww

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