Deck Bracing and Mushrooms

[belliott (Bob Elliott, 450.0002662)]

@rmayo

Marcel,

According to Chicago’s deck requirements it should have a bolted lap splice. The attached picture comes from that manual.

Yep, built before famous 2003 porch collapse.

[mcyr (Marcel Cyr, CMI)]

Thanks Randy, I knew it didn’t look right from here.

[belliott (Bob Elliott, 450.0002662)]

Very few porches I see are built to code .