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DIY-centric Smart Designs

  • Designed from a  DIYer’s perspective.
  • DIY-Smart Brackets make work fast, easy, and safe.
  • DIY-Smart designs save effort, time, and reduce out of pocket costs drastically.
  • Precision brackets eliminate wood-joinery skills.
  • Highly detailed professional installation instructions are easy to follow by anyone.
View from below of the 6x6 Octagon Gazebo, featuring wooden beams joined at the center with the DIY Heavy Duty Iron Octagon Spider Bracket, creating a striking radial, star-like pattern.

Innovative Shapes

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  • Novel octagon shapes are unique and beautiful.
  • Bracket designs allow creation of complex shapes.
  • Highest quality materials, and workmanship.
  • Unlimited size flexibility to suit every need.
  • Complex wood joints made easy to create.
  • Available for 4×4 and 6×6 post sized structures.

High Quality Brackets

  • Engineered for high load capacity.
  • Precision engineered for consistent product quality.
  • 1/8″ thick high strength steel used on all brackets.
  • 60% thicker metal than competitors for high strength, durability, and long life.
  • High strength brackets create super-strong and permanent joints between lumber members.
  • Brackets allow easy creation of complex shapes.
  • Powder painted black for rust proofing.
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Octagon Roof Skirt Bracket

Octagon Roof Skirt Tie Bracket
SKU # O-RST

    • Made to secure the ends of two roof skirts to the end of ridge rafters in octagon or partial octagon roof structures.
    • Easy to install at the end of each rafter; provides two roof skirt mounting flanges at precise angles.
    • Uses 1/4″ x 1-1/4″ Lag Screw to connect the rafter and roof skirts together with precision and high strength.
    • Highest quality materials and workmanship for high durability and long life.
    • Smart DIY design provides two U-channels which hold the roof skirt members and free your hands to allow safe, easy, and accurate assembly work and precise positioning.
    • 1/8” high strength steel, welded construction.
    • Black powder painted for rust proofing for lifetime.
    • Can be spray painted over, using exterior paints.
    • (Qty 6) 1/4″ X 1-1/4″ Hex Hd lag screws included to secure the bracket to the end of a rafter and the ends of the roof skirt beams.
    • Easy to follow, highly detailed animated installation instructions are available.

Specifications

Length = 7″
Width = 3-7/8″
Height = 2-7/8″
Weight = 1.5 lbs.
Steel Thickness: 1/8″
Paint Type: Powder Paint
Paint Color: Black

Post Top Rafter Tie Bracket

Post Top Rafter Tie Bracket
SKU # PTRT

  • Made to secure a 2×6 or 2×8 rafter to the top of each post.
  • Highest quality materials and workmanship for high durability and long life.
  • Smart DIY design allows easy and accurate assembly work and precise positioning.
  • 1/8” high strength steel, welded construction.
  • Black powder painted for rust proofing for lifetime.
  • Can be spray painted over, using exterior paints.
    (Qty 6) 1/4″ X 1-1/4″ Hex Hd lag screws included to secure the bracket to post top and rafter to the bracket.
  • Easy to follow, highly detailed animated installation instructions are available.

Specifications

Length = 3-7/8″
Width = 3-1/2″
Height = 2-3/4″
Weight = 0.7 lbs.
Steel Thickness: 1/8″
Paint Type: Powder Paint
Paint Color: Black

Octagon Cross Tie Bracket

Octagon Cross Tie Bracket
SKU # O-CT

  • This is a novel bracket designed to connect two roof deck support cross tie beams to the main octagon rafters.
  • DIY-Smart design provides precise angles alignment and, in addition, provides a pencil mark viewing widow for precise locating of this bracket.
  • The Octagon Cross Tie Bracket is designed to attach to the bottom and side surfaces of the main octagon rafters and provide two cross tie receiver U-channels at precise angles.
  • These brackets simplify addition of the cross tie beams at perfect angles to form decorative deck support structures in a perfect octagon shape.
  • The cross tie bracket attaches to the rafter’s and cross tie beam’s bottom and side surfaces using eight (8) 1/4″ x 1-1/4″ lag screws.
  • The high strength design of this bracket holds the cross tie support beams securely.
  • The Octagon Cross Tie Bracket’s arms have upward facing open U-channels to easily receive 2×6 or 2×8 cross tie beams. Each cross tie beam is secured to the U-channel with two (2) 1/4″ x 1-1/4″ lag screws.
  • Don’t forget that you will have to drive 10D X 3″ nails at an angle to secure the top of the cross tie beams to the rafter. These 10D nails are not included.

Specifications

Length = 6″
Width = 6-3/4″
Height = 2″
Weight = 1.3 lbs.
Steel Thickness: 1/8″
Paint Type: Powder Paint
Paint Color: Black

Octagon Spider Bracket

Octagon Spider Bracket
SKU # O-SPD

A novel 8-way spider hub design which makes it simple to create a super-strong compressive joint between 8 rafters pitched at 20 degree angles.

The one and only DIY-Smart design ever created to allow DIYers to easily build a grand solid roofed octagon outdoor living structure easily, fast, and for 1/4 the cost of contracted labor.

The Octagon Spider Bracket is designed to resist compressive loads at the peak of the octagon roof. The high strength design of this bracket resists compressive loads applied by each rafter and permanently supports all 8 rafters.

The Octagon Spider Brackets arms have upward facing open U-channels to easily receive 2×6 or 2×8 rafters. Each rafter is secured to the U-channel with five (5) 1/4″ x 1-1/4″ lag screws.

Specifications

Length = 16-1/8″
Width = 16-1/8″
Height = 6-7/8″
Weight = 16.5 lbs.
Steel Thickness: 1/8″
Paint Type: Powder Paint
Paint Color: Black