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Gable End Bracing Page
Update: May 2008
I installed 4 - 8 foot 2X4s perpendicular to each of the 3 gable-end
chords (total 12 installed). This has brought our gable bracing
to current code and has resulted in wind insurance savings.
Prior to May 2008
My current gable (west). 1974 CBS construction:

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