Weak Deck

[Joe.B]

 

[Joe.B]

 

[tmurray]

oh my, so upset over here sipping my latte.

If you were part of the development you should be able to answer this very simple question. How does wind load a deck post? That is as basic as it gets.

OK. To me, your message seemed upset. Sorry if I misread that.

I didn't claim to be part of the development for that change (it happened a few decades ago). Well before I starting sitting on their governance board.

 

[jar546]

My post was 100% about how decks don't typically fail because of posts buckling. I'm still confused as to what you're objecting.

I'm not objecting, just adding another dynamic to what you did. Not everything here is confrontational or combative. We are simply adding to the conversation, so I'm not sure where the defensiveness is coming from. I thought I made my point clear about two of my posts ago, but you can't seem to process that information for some reason.

 

[Joe.B]

 

[redeyedfly]

View attachment 16758

That is remarkably accurate!! (no hat though)

 

[redeyedfly]

I'm not objecting, just adding another dynamic to what you did. Not everything here is confrontational or combative. We are simply adding to the conversation, so I'm not sure where the defensiveness is coming from. I thought I made my point clear about two of my posts ago, but you can't seem to process that information for some reason.

Not defensive, I actually have no idea what point you're trying to make. I said decks fail at connections and you said, no, they fail at connections... I don't understand.

 

[redeyedfly]

The deck needs to resist the lateral load, so it has some sort of connection to resist moment at the top of the post. Eg knee braces.

Cheers, Wayne

So Canada has prescriptive knee braces for deck posts that are adding bending moments enough to fail 4x4 posts and they changed the code??

I've never seen prescriptive knee braces in a code (<-- not a logical fallacy)

 

[jar546]

Not defensive, I actually have no idea what point you're trying to make. I said decks fail at connections and you said, no, they fail at connections... I don't understand.

I never said that. Here is my post.

Nothing is "always" and when you live in high wind areas, the deck to house connection is just as important as uplift.