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Posted by PeterD on October 3, 2007, 7:29 pm
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:43:10 -0700, Needing Advice
>I'm going to be roofing over and screening in my upstairs deck. It is
>attached to the house via a ledger board at the floor joist. When I
>build the walls, what is the best way to tie them into the existing
>house? Unfortunately there aren't any existing studs where the new
>porch walls will butt up to the house.
>
>Should I tear out some drywall inside and put in a 2x4 corner at each
>of the connection points? The wall is a gable end wall so I don't see
>how I could overlap the house top plates and new porch top plates
>without sistering on some boards to get around the 2x6 gable end
>ceiling joist that will be in the way.
>
Last one I did, I tore off the sheathing on the outside, dropped in a
couple of studs for each wall I was adding, and put the sheathing back
on. Much easier and cleaner than going after the drywall!
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