Today we inspected a deck where joist hangers were installed on one half of the deck and none on the other. I’ll point out why joist hangers are a good idea and show you the results if they’re not used. As always, if you need referrals please contact me.
What’s up guys it’s Aleks Parker
inspections look at my view today super
gorgeous day okay so for today’s daily
slice of pie we’re gonna be going over a
deck and basically i’m just gonna go
over joist hangers so for this one half
the deck was built with joist hangers
half the deck wasn’t and I don’t know if
they just ran out or what the reasoning
was but a joist hanger let me go over
here you don’t know what it is it’s this
thing right here and so what it’s going
to do is just create more stability in a
better connection between this joist and
this plate right here and that’s
obviously what you’re gonna be putting
your weight on and then you have that
beam and so this half of the deck is
built with joist hangers and this half
is not and you can see how this wood is
already starting to separate and
basically along the whole way it’s just
starting to create that gap and so one
thing that that joist hangers gonna do
is it’s going to keep that connection
and keep it secure for a lot longer
period of time then if you were to not
use one and so just for good deck
practices you want to make sure that and
what are they called joist hangers
they’re really not that expensive
they’re super cheap and so I would
definitely recommend using those and
also when you’re building a deck if you
have to split your beam or sister it make
sure I just noticed this make sure that
you’re gonna have a post underneath this
port as well this is not going to really
balance that weight out as much as they
were hoping you can kind of tell that
this one’s already coming down a little
bit and so just put a post either just
put another one right here concrete and
then put a post right there just to
secure that but I just saw that I was
making the video so anyways if you guys
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have a good day