Deck Ledger Board Attachment

[Umma Gumma]

I'm building a deck on a relatively new house. There is no traditional rim joist as the flooring support is engineered trusses with something like 1/2 OSB on the outside. Trusses are spaced 19.2" OC.

In talking to the city inspector and the truss manufacturer, both indicate it's safe to secure the ledger into the ends of the trusses, which are basically double 2x4s with 16-18" of clear space outside the top and bottom 2" or so. They indicated ledger screws, lag bolts or lag screws are permissible. So I'm going to use LedgerLoks, which the inspector indicated were fine, even though the pattern will be different than what the manufacturer recommends (two screws on each joist end spaced 19.2" OC is my plan). I plan to use the 5" screws, which I believe will get me quite a bit of grip into the trusses.

Just wanted to check with anyone who has done this themselves to make sure I'm going down the right path. I prefer an attached deck and thus not really looking at the free standing option at this time. It looks like these engineered trusses have been popular for a few years now, so I'm guessing there is some experience out there in building decks with them. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of information on going this route, though there is an article by a group called the SBC Industry that advises this is possible and safe, given my deck dimensions.

More than anything I'm just looking for real world experience that anyone can share with the result of having dome something similar.

Thanks!

[Tom7227]

you will have better luck posting this in the home improvement forum

[Esox_Magnum]

We use 5" torx lags 2 in each truss. The rim you see that looks like orb is 1 1/8" thick