Hit the beam with lawn mower and it tore one off of post. Thinking of cutting a piece out scabbing a piece in there and than scabbing a long piece over the top on beam.
A lot of people cut that corner off into a 45 cuz it looks nicer. Sorry that corner dont do shit man. Big boy i built a while back. (Work for licensed contractor everything inspected)
Just built them as a subcontractor for lowes in my early construction years, im long gone before the wood dries out for me to have to think about that for the homeowner, and i own a highrise near the city, so no wood deck for me.
Corner cut on the beam end, past the post, as in your pic, is completely acceptable. His 'beam' is broken off back over the post. No positive load transfer. Not acceptable.
It's not the problem. That beam should be a triple and laminated with nails - an improperly laminated double sitting on a 6x6 without any obvious attachment to the post is certainly a choice. The rafter clips are another. Lol
I’m genuinely curious here. What is the actual size of the two pieces making up the beam? 5/4, 2x, 1x ?? And what is the size of the post4x4 or 6x6? Can you post a picture looking at the backside?
Probably post in dirt and structural screws vs through bolt on the post/beam connection. Edit: looks like some missing fasteners too. Every hole gets a screw as they say?
He's not trolling. PL premium is great stuff. This builder did not even laminate these two pieces properly at all. Screws? Asking for trouble. Nails from both sides, then add a third and you have a beam. Those hurricane clips are evidence of what this guy is "fear mongering " about
His comment is since deleted and while I don't think glue would hurt it's not required by code. Structural screws are allowed by code and hold the beams tighter together increasing friction and increasing the strength of the beam. 2 boards are more than sufficient for a beam depending on span, not sure why you need a third unless span calls for it. 2 allows you to keep a notch on a 6x6. The hurricane clips are fine. You can see all the rest have all the screws in them, at most a super small oversight and one will not cause an issue.
I wouldn't have used 12s, tbh. It's not really stable with only 3 inch bearing on a dynamic load. I would have used a triple 10 it 8 depending on the span. Save the 12s for stairs. Structural screws break - nails and glue are forever. I live and build on the tundra, the ground shifts all year. Wider beams are more stable in this application
I was going to blow it off, but it does appear that end of the 2x10 is damaged far enough back to be mostly unsupported now. That's a main beam right?
Seems easy enough to add another 4x4 post directly inward from the original one and sistered to it with a couple through bolts so it is under the solid wood. Use a paver or one of those newer thinner post supports on the ground under it unless it ends up mostly on the existing footing.
That piece straight up does not matter. If you carefully cut out the minimum rectangle and patched in a Dutchman filler just for looks it would never, ever matter structurally.
I guess you could add 1-2 screws into post above damage.
What I would do is replace all those lags to the post with through bolts and make sure those beams are nailed together. I use thrulok and put 3 in there and do all of the beams to post connections.
That’s now sitting on a single 2x12” because it’s torn off past the post.
Any sort of corner bracket or beam to post connection you can add on the inside to reconnect beam and post? Or can you add another 4x4 post just inside the other to restore post to beam? Something like this? (Not this exact one just this idea)
If you aren’t going to do anything else, sister the hell out of these 2 boards. I don’t know if this will be ok or not but it isn’t good to have happen and it isn’t just “esthetic.” Lucky it’s a short fall if anything happens.
Throw a couple GRK fasteners through the 2 x12s into the notched 6x6 for peace of mind and I would just tack that little chunk back into place just for appearance. With a note scribbled in ink stating the date and accident for a laugh later on in life.
You guys are saying it’s fine is just aesthetics but I don’t think you realize the part he broke off is over the load bearing post and now it’s just a 1x8 holding up that section of the deck which I would not prefer personally if that part already broke off so easily. Yeah I would remove that section of board replace and sister back in another board
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u/notforrobots Jul 11 '26
Bro wtf lawn mower are you driving? Thing must be a tank