Originally Posted By: Jay Moge This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
the overhang doesn’t seem to pretrude long enough to even need aditional support, I’d tend to agree with brian. they look to be just a decoration to add a “look” of elegance.
Originally Posted By: Jay Moge This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
true. and they may want to line things up a little better after removing the posts and renailing them. sounds like a good weekend project for the HO if he’s so inclined.
Originally Posted By: ccoombs This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I have never liked setting beams on a corbel that sits on top of a beam…but the architects seem to like them. I have a detail for this condition with all the connections hidden. Based on the movement of the corbel I would assume that there isn’t much of a connection. Although I agree there is little or no load, there should be enough of a connection to hold the lumber in place.
Originally Posted By: mcyr This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
The generated pictures show me that the corbel or capitol of the column as I call it, appears to be picking up the load of the two ship lap joint beams above. Hard to tell from the pictures what kind of load that is.
I would have hoped that whoever put this together, could have erased the pencil mark made to do the ship lap joint during layout, so natural staining would not depict the working outlines.
The methods used in this case weather structural or ornament, would have provided pegs let in the above purlin member to provide lateral and horizontal movement of the twisting affect of the wood post upon drying.
The other method could have been drilling and screwing the capitol to the purlin and wood pegged the screw holes to match the wood work.
