Hi Dan, I am now more or less back. Still on vacation until Tuesday. My two daughters are around for a while so schedule is off a bit but I can open the room and hang in while doing other things in the evening.
If you have skype try that too, my Skype is at the end of my tagline. I recommend like Clifford that you take the trouble to instal the metallic smooth walled ducting for your dryer. This is a fire issue and even more, an energy one. Might only save you a dime per load but that is payback over less than a year. Less resistance from turbulence in the duct translates into substantial efficiency savings. Now for the ledger board: Why not instal a 2 by 6 above the basement wall with bolts countersunk enough so that the heads through washers are flush to the surface then nail or bolt or screw the 2 by 10 to that. You can install all your joist hangers on the 2 by 10 on the horizontal where it is easier to swing a hammer before you attach it to your actual ledger.For longevity you may wish to use treated lumber for those sub-assemblies. Don't forget that the stresses will be vertical sheering forces only. You want most of your 2 by 6 above the holes you bore for the bolts. There may be some code requirements as to how many bolts you need but assuming ten half inch thick bolts I can't even imagine how much force would be required to sheer through. Now the 2 by 6 is also resting on the shoulder of the basement and the compression of the bolts holding the board to the wall will also provide substantial friction force to be overcome by that vertical loading. Finally if you are still concerned you can vertically fit a few lengths of 4 by 4 notched at the top end to fit around the added 2 by 10 and sitting on a brick or to on undisturbed ground against the basement wall or even bolted to the basement wall to support it further or maybe a couple of length of angle iron bolted to the basement wall under the lower edge of the 2 by 10 which I will now call a rim joist. Hope this gives you a few more ideas. Sorry about the electric meter. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:48 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] The deck. > Dale, > > Oh I wish you were available for an FTP chat. So many questions. > > I pretty much have to move the electric meter as the meter itself is in > the way. If I were to build the deck around the meter it would block > visual access to it which is a no no according to the electric company. > > Teresa's brother recommended not flush pointing the bricks, they are a > vertical course of bricks, and that would actually help drain the water > out. I had intended on flashing it, but he thought that looks ugly and if > you can avoid it, why not. > > I keep going back and forth with the idea of a step or no step down to the > deck. I had decided to use a 2 by 6 and a 2 by 10 in front of that so the > 2 by 6 would push the 2 by 10 out beyond the stone foundation wall. I now > have a couple of concerns with that plan again. The 2 by 10 would only > touch the stone at a few points since the stone face is so lumpy. I am > worried that if I stagger the bolting of the ledger board, the lower bolts > which would just pass through the 2 by 10 and not both boards, would have > the tendency to pull the lower edge of the 2 by 10 in toward the house > since there wouldn't be a whole lot backing that lower edge. > > Secondly, there is a six foot wide basement window that the 2 by 10 would > partially obscure. That would also mean that I could not have bolts along > the lower stagger in that six foot span. > > the whole thing is driving me crazy. > > Hope you are back online soon. > > Later. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > Various List Members At The Following Address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! 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