Hardware engineering

As I've mentioned before, the roof over the deck is up about 16 feet. It's a structurally significant addition to the back of the house. So, the first real step of commitment on this project was making contact with an engineer. I'm working with Joel from Stevens Engineering. He's been excellent from start to finish. From our initial conversation, he came up with a rough sketch. We refined it over the next month to get to the near-final plans.