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Coastal Contractor

July/August 2007
Lateral anchors; bouncy deck; stair lighting

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QUESTION & ANSWER Why Do Decks Need Lateral Anchors? Q The ledger attachment requirements recently adopted at the 2007 ICC conference include both a prescriptive bolting schedule and a lateral attachment requirement. The bolting requirements make sense, but why do I also need to add the lateral attachment? What is a lateral anchor? And isn't it going to be a headache to align the house joists with the deck joists for that? What if the deck is being attached to a part of the house where the joists run parallel to the wall? Courtesy DeckLok bracket Systems A Michael Morse,

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