Ledger Board Over Siding

These 18 articles will teach you how to install flashing and bolt the ledger connection to the house rim.

Ledger board over siding.

The ledger board is a horizontal framing member usually two by 10 or two by 12 lumber that supports one side of a deck and attaches flat to the wall of a house after removing a section of siding. Aluminum and vinyl siding can easily be removed with tin snips from an area one foot surrounding the ledger board location. Should i look at at maybe installing the ledger over the top of the hardiplank using shims. Are there any gotchas im missing on attaching the ledger board.

Thanks a lot dont worry there will be plenty more deckbuilding questions to come. Make the outline large enough to include space for the deck boards on top the ledger and any trim boards on the sides. Never install a ledger board over the top of siding no matter what you hear this can weaken the connection. In order to install the ledger board you usually need to remove the house s siding.

Instead cut off a section of siding so ledger can be in complete contact with house. Make sure to install flashing under the siding extending over the ledger the flashing prevents the build up of moisture which causes rotting. Detecting and correcting deck ledger problems around vinyl siding. The attach a deck is a simple deck ledger mounting system that stands the ledger off the wall eliminating the need for flashing that s the big benefit but there are other features i like.

Nail undersill trim j channel will also work over the bottom cut using 11 gauge aluminum nails. Ledger board overlapping siding below it. Then cut away the siding. They said this was intentional so that water wouldn t get behind the siding underneath the ledger.

Also is it going to be hard to slide the flashing underneath the hardiplank siding. The following steps will explain an easy method of removing the lap siding and attaching a ledger board. My contractor installed my ledger board with about a 1 4 to 1 2 overlap on the bottom edge over the hardieplank siding. Properly installing a ledger board for your deck is one of the most important structural components of building a safe and strong deck.

Start by making an outline on the siding where you want to position the ledger board. Detecting and correcting deck ledger problems around vinyl siding.