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So as I've mentioned in the course, it's actually fairly difficult to properly anchor a deck to brick veneer
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Brick veneer is brick that's one layer thick, about three and a half inches thick
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And then there's an air space and then there's some kind of wooden frame inside
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This is the way modern bricks homes are built. They're not built as structural brick walls with multiple bricks
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It's just the one brick and then a wood frame. And if you have a deck in mind that ideally needs to plug in at a level that is encountering that brick veneer
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then you've got a bit of a problem. Because as I explained, it looks like solid masonry and it is, but it's just not all that strong
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So you can't sink the expanding metal anchors that I've shown into brick veneer
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It's just not strong enough. You might drill right through and put an anchor into the wood frame behind it if you can
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but that's not great either because that's going to put some side pressure on the veneer when you tighten that up
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So the ideal solution is this piece of hardware here. This is especially made for securing the edges of deck floor frames to brick veneer
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The edge of the floor frame, called a ledger or a header
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sometimes it's inch and a half thick wood, and it fastens here when you're putting it all together
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And this leg of the bracket fits through a hole, a fairly large hole that you've drilled through the brick veneer
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Now, there's also these long screws that go up at an angle up here
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and they also need to go through holes in the brick veneer at an angle
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But then they go all the way up and then into the wood frame material of your house
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So these angled leg screws are pulling this assembly into your house and holding the ledger board secure
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But, and this is where the bracket comes in, in order to relieve the pressure of the brick veneer being pushed against the house
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this leg extends through the brick. The brick is about three and a half inches thick
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and then there's an airspace. It extends through all that, and this little foot is designed to press up against the frame of the house
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So you've got pressure this way from these angled screws holding the floor frame of the deck to the house
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but then this leg is pressing up against the wood frame behind the brick veneer
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so you can't push too much, because like I said, the brick veneer is not all that strong in sideways pressure
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And so this can be adjusted. This is a kind of a threaded arrangement, crudely threaded arrangement
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that needs to be adjusted so that it's just barely pushing up against the wood frame
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There's also some smaller screw holes here. It's through here that you'd fasten this bracket to the wood of your deck floor frame
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Now, if you take a look at this illustration here, you can see a cross section of how it all works
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So that's your brick veneer wall, and this is the edge of the floor frame
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the ledger, as I said, it's sometimes called. And then here you can see that threaded leg that goes right through
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and then the angled leg screws that go up through a pre-drilled hole into the floor frame of your house
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So it's these that provide inward pull and support for the floor frame
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but it's this leg that prevents too much side pressure from straining the brick
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and pulling it in and maybe cracking the brick. So with this arrangement, you can quite easily secure a deck floor frame to brick veneer
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And it's really the simplest and most effective way to do it
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It's got all the approvals. It's a bit complicated, so you may want to work around and use another approach for fastening your deck
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as I explained in the course. But if you have your heart set on connecting it right to the brick veneer
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then this is the thing you need to use. It's by the Simpson Strongtie people
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I have no reason to mention them, except that they just do a great job. This particular connector, it's the only one they sell
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It's the only one I've ever seen, actually. BVLZ. That's what it's called
