I’m going to be building an arbor along the side of my garage. It’ll be 25′ long about 7′ wide with probably 3″X10″ arbors attaching to the garage. When I build the garage I installed 2X12 blocking in the wall to give the 3X10’s something to attach to together with a 12″ Azek band board at the arbor height so I would not have the sloppy joint created if there was the horizontal siding so I’m all set there.
Anyway, I’d like to use a concealed hanger. Went on Simpson’s site, didn’t see any and wrote them a note about 2 weeks ago. No response so far. Does anyone here know of a concealed hanger? The other solution of course is to lag screw a 2X4 into the wall and use that as a ledger, locating the lags so the heads would be covered up by the arbor but I’d like to avoid that.
Thanks!
Doug
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There is a style of hanger
they call "HUC" but they are available in limited sizes, and it's only the flange that's concealed.
Or.... imagine a T-shaped piece of metal. The cross bar of the T is nailed to the wall, the leg sticks out. The end of each 3x10 is kerfed down the middle to receive the leg, and bolts are run thru. Typical "knife plate" application
I think they are spendy and a little fussy to install
but they look great. foun them in 2009-2010 Simpson catalog page 177.
I think the CJT3 might work. You may have to size up to a little thicker arbor beam to hide the mounting plate.
jim at great white
Yeah, a piece of T stock or a couple of pieces of L stock back-to-back, fastened to the ledger and then the beam notched over the bracket and through-bolted. (Of course, a BI might object that whatever you use isn't "listed", but that presumes the thing gets inspected in the first place.)
Thanks everyone. Looks like the CJT is exactly what I need. Some how I missed it when I looked at their online 2010 catalog.
Doug