Posts and beams can be steel, wood or engineered lumber. When placing joists, studs, rafters or trusses, carpenters need to ...

In lieu of the ledger board, I constructed this as a cantilevered deck where the joists were supported by large two parallel ...

The distance between each joist mark varies depending on the specific tape measure and construction, but typically you'll find I-beam joists positioned 19.2 inches away from one another ...