All too often, rookie carpenters or do-it-yourself homeowners will install joist hangers using roofing nails. That’s a recipe for disaster, as roofing nails are not structural nails.

Joist hangers are safe if installed correctly. Hanging joists is by no means new. You typically need to hang a joist if the top of the joist needs to be in the same plane as the beam that supports it.

Robert even sent some of the rusted joist hanger nails. A few of them had lost well over 60 percent of the steel! The bottom of several hangers had holes in them, and the remaining metal was paper ...

A: Joist hangers are safe, if they’re installed correctly. You typically need to hang a joist if the top of the joist needs to be on the same plane as the beam that supports it.

The joist hanger on the left was from a home 13 miles from Chesapeake Bay in Baltimore. ... Eleven years ago, he wanted to learn how to frame a large shed, including common roof framing.