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Cutting and Attaching the Ledger Board

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What happens here

After staining, lean the long lumber pieces against the house to allow them to dry completely. Once dry, measure the available wall space to determine the length of the ledger board. The builder measures 14 feet for the main wall. He then measures the height, ensuring enough clearance from the roof fascia (18 inches). The ledger board is cut to length using a circular saw and a jigsaw for decorative ends. The cut pieces are then attached to the house wall, ensuring they are level and securely fastened with appropriate screws for the stucco material.

Goal: Securely attach the main ledger board to the house wall at the correct height and length.

Tools and materials

  • Circular Saw Ryobi ONE+ — Making straight cuts on the lumber
  • Douglas Fir Lumber Unspecified — For the ledger board and other structural components
  • Impact Driver Ryobi ONE+ — Driving screws to secure the ledger board
  • Jigsaw Ryobi — Cutting decorative or curved shapes on the ends of the lumber
  • Ladders Little Giant — Providing safe access to reach the installation height on the wall
  • Pencil Unspecified — Marking cut lines and measurements
  • Speed Square Unspecified — Ensuring straight and accurate cuts
  • Tape Measure Unspecified — Measuring distances for cutting and placement
  • Screws Unspecified — Securing the ledger board to the house wall

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looking good. Let's start cutting. I think I did my math wrong. I knew I had 18 inches of by the time I stack everything, but I also included this beam. So, we're going to need to raise this another probably close to 6 inches. But, the good thing is the holes there, they're not going to be exposed. They're going to be covered by the bottom of this uh back ledger. So, I'm not too worried about it. So, we definitely had to move it and we had to move it a few times and now we have way too many holes that we know what to do with and that's problematic. Ooh, we got a solid beam up or the back ledger. Now we're going to start building our posts here. Ideally, I kind of did the math of how far away I want the posts to be. It's really kind of the the depth of my cabinets and my countertops that will be, but really the dictating factor is this grill. So by the time you open the grill, leave maybe an inch in the back to the front, we're looking at 36 in. So we're going to take our 6 by 6 posts, we're going to anchor on the ground both here and there. Solidify it and then we'll be able to run stretchers on it. Cuz these are just going to hang off of this, but then the front beam is going to be lower. 3 and 1/2 up here. So what we need to do is raise this 7 in. That way 2 by 4 That way 2 by 4 goes here and it's up there. We have to lift it again. This is so frustrating and here's why is I was thinking in my head that I'm going to have the next 2 by 8 sitting on top of this. But these are going to be on hangers. And then the beam up here needs to sit lower, so I don't want it to be like crammed over your head. Now the problem is the stucco is going to have all these holes left for me drilling into it. I'll patch them up. I have the same color that we can dab it up after it's done, but it just sucks drilling and redrilling and all that. All right, so the hardware situation here is going to be pretty nasty. I got even my anchors down below. They're all going to match. We're going to drop this down here. We're going to take these a What are they called? Redhead anchors. I've used them so many times. They're awesome. Drop it in here, put the little plate there, screw that on, hammer it in place, and then start tightening and this sucker shouldn't go nowhere.

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