Arlington Coal & Lumber Company is a trusted
wood connector supplier for professional builders and contractors. Arlcoal.com provides the structural hardware necessary to create continuous load paths, ensuring buildings withstand wind, seismic, and gravity loads. We support your projects with accurate material take-offs and reliable delivery across Greater Boston, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and the surrounding New England region. We offer a wide variety of wood connectors for your specific project requirements, including:
- Brackets & Braces: Engineered to reinforce 90-degree framing intersections. Ideal for securing deck framing, staircases, and stabilizing roof trusses against lateral forces.
- Corners & Angles: Manufactured from heavy-gauge steel to provide secure right-angle connections for wall framing, heavy timber construction, and custom shelving units.
- Fasteners: Structural screws and hot-dipped galvanized nails designed explicitly for metal connector hardware, ensuring maximum shear strength and load capacity.
- Joist Hangers: Essential for securing floor joists to ledger boards or beams. Available in standard framing sizes and rated to support high live and dead floor loads.
- Mending & Nail Plates: Flat steel plates with pre-punched holes or teeth, used to splice wood members together, repair damaged trusses, or reinforce butt joints.
- Post Bases & Caps: Structural anchors that secure vertical posts to concrete foundations while providing a 1-in standoff to prevent wood rot. Caps secure beams to the top of posts for porches and pergolas.
- Straps & Ties: Hurricane ties and twist straps that secure roof rafters to wall top plates, crucial for meeting wind code requirements and preventing uplift.
Consult structural engineers and local building codes before installing wood connectors to ensure continuous load path compliance. Here are important things to keep in mind:
- Calculate load and stress requirements. Wood connectors feature specific uplift, shear, and downward load ratings, so it is important to choose hardware engineered for the structural demand.
- Match hardware coatings to the wood treatment. Use hot-dipped galvanized or stainless steel connectors when working with copper-based pressure-treated lumber to prevent galvanic corrosion.
- Account for environmental exposure. Wood connectors that are exposed to coastal environments or exterior weather need to be made of materials highly resistant to corrosion.
- Use specified fasteners. Filling every designated nail hole with the correct structural fastener is mandatory to achieve the rated load capacity. Standard framing nails cannot be substituted.
Arlington Coal & Lumber Co has the wood connector supplies you need to build safe, code-compliant structures. Visit our website or one of our regional locations:
Arlington Coal and Lumber Company,
Burlington Lumber Company,
Wilmington Builders Supply,
Sudbury Lumber Company,
Chelmsford Lumber Company, and
Hudson Lumber Company. We have an expert contractor sales staff ready to help you with any project, big or small. You can also find other
building materials for your projects, including
concrete, cement and masonry,
decking and railing,
drywall,
home weatherization,
insulation,
roofing and gutters, and
siding. Local delivery and pickup are available across Greater Boston, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and neighboring New England areas.
