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front gable porch with brick raised garden

Added additional braces to the valley jack rafters: There is two vertical notched braces that support the longest jack rafters connecting them to the existing top wall plate. All the other jack rafters have horizontal 2" x 4" collar ties at where lower base, or call them lower cords.