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Installing Joist Hangers

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What happens here

Install metal joist hangers along the ledger board. These hangers will support the floor joists. The builder specifies installing them 12 inches on center, which is more robust than the typical 16 or 24 inches on center often used, to withstand extreme snow loads (up to 6 feet of snow in his area). Secure each hanger with 3-inch exterior-grade nails. No hangers are needed on the beam side as the joists will lay directly on top, with the beam doing the heavy lifting.

Goal: Prepare the ledger board for floor joists with hangers

Tools and materials

  • 3-inch Exterior Grade Nails — Securing the joist hangers
  • Hammer — Driving nails for joist hangers
  • Level — Ensuring hangers are level
  • Metal Joist Hangers — Supporting the floor joists where they connect to the ledger board

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to say it. A long time ago. Damn it. [Music] You ever wonder how Clark Ken wears his glasses? Nobody knows he's Superman. Then he kicks him off. They're like, "Clark, where's Clark?" Superman, do you know where Clark is? Just glasses. It's the dumbest principle of any comic book I've ever thought of. Hey, we're back. We're going to start hanging rafters here. So, the idea here or floor joist, sorry. Uh, the idea here is everything is going to go on center with regular old hangers off of the D ledger, but on the outside, we're going to double up on them. So, to do that, we're going to have this concealed hanger. Room for two in there. Throw that sucker in there. Run it across. And this method by having these boards lay on top of our beam is going to buy us an extra 10 in of overhang. Not too much, but just enough to have a little bit extra width here. [Music] What sucks about building in the mountains or something that's not within the city is you're not in control of your supplies. I mean, you can haul them all up here, but that's just a lot of work. So, the nice thing is you can order from building supply stores everything you need. uh they run everything up, but then they give you certain things that are not the appropriate size. For example, like we needed something that is 3 in and instead we got 4 in to put these two together. They were great for our ledger in the back, but here they're sticking out. So, I decided to flip them on the inside. That way, nobody could ever see them or get to them when they're underneath the house or the deck, I guess. But just those little things, you know, really grinds my gears, you know. You know, that really grinds my gears. Well, folks, we got ourselves a frame, don't we? It's hanger time. What we're looking at is getting our floor joist on. The question is, what's going to be our spacing? Answer for you. Old Chad GPT tells me 24in wide span is for a 10-in, sorry, 10in span, 2x10 boards. Uh, no more than 24 in on center. However, we're dealing with extreme snow here. Last winter, we had about 6 ft of snow on that deck and they're spaced 16 in on center. We didn't have any problems. However, because we got the appropriate amount of supplies, we're going to beef this son of a gun up so hard that it's going to withstand double the amount of snow. I'm not an engineer, so I don't know how to crunch those numbers, but bro math tells me we can do double. If we do, 12 in on center. Ladies and gentlemen, let's grab our…

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