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New Ledger Attachment Requirements Adopted

Coastal Contractor

July/August 2007
by Cheri B. Hainer
Bolting schedule and lateral attachment brackets part of the 2007 IRC Supplement.

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New Ledger Attachment Requirements Adopted Bolting schedule and lateral attachment brackets are part of the 2007 IRC Supplement Cheri B. Hainer Ledger-board attachment is a key element in deck failures. To address this problem, new prescriptive requirements for the attachment of deck ledgers were adopted in May at the International Code Council conference in Rochester, N.Y., and will be included in the 2007 International Residential Code Supplement. An event underlining the need for this code change occurred in Virginia Beach, Va., on October 28, 2005. At a wedding reception, a third-floor deck holding 40 guests collapsed (see photo, right), and

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