12/04/2025
How to connect double 2x12 girder to column/wall for a porch?
How to connect double 2x12 girder to columns/walls for a porch?
Okay guys I need help. Working an architecture internship, and my task for the last few weeks has been to build this model. My boss is very busy and rarely in, and it’s a small office so the other employees are very busy (and also fresh out of school, so they often dont know structure well either).
So here’s my dilemma. Boss man said the girder connecting the columns to the wall was going to be a double 2x12 and it’ll probably be a “sit in” condition to the exterior wall. However, he told me that after already gluing and assembling the walls and columns 😂 he also said to “look in the book for the explanation”. Well, I can’t find any answers in the carpentry book he gave me.. so I took to google. Google has only shown me connections with a face mount hanger, that connects directly on the edge of the wall. So then I go to ChatGPT and essentially I’m told there are multiple options. Both are viable.
Means I already assembled all these conditions, and it would be very difficult to cut out a space for a “sit in” connection at this point, do you guys think I could get away with the “face mount hanger” style instead?
