Siding Disappears When A Room Divider Connects With An Exterior Wall

[Craigevans]

I am new with chief and I am having a problem. When I build a covered lanai or porch, I am building my tie beam by building a wall and using the pony wall as a room divider to allow for the height i need of the beam and also to provide an enclosed "room" space so I can set my ceiling heights. The only problem is that when I do this, the room divider is removing the siding at the point of contact with the exterior wall and I see the exposed structure of the wall. Can someone help with why this happening and how to fix it. Or if there is a better way to create a tie beam and still creat the "room for ceiling heights ect. Thanks!

[lbuttery]

Just guessing:

 

try using an invisible wall instead of the room divider ???

 

choose or create an appropriate wall type and set it to invisible

 

Lew

[rlackore]

Don't know what a lanai is. For a covered porch you could use a railing wall to define the extents of the porch, and use a soffit (or other method) for the tie beam (if I understand what you mean by a tie beam):

 

[rlackore]

Lanai: a Hawaiian word for veranda...

 

Veranda: Also, verandah. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S word for a large, open porch, usually covered...

 

I Googled Lanai, didn't get any hits that made sense within the context. Thanks for the explanation.

[Craigevans]

Thanks so much for the help! By taking the wall and making it invisible that took care of the problem. I couldn't use the rail wall because I want the area open from all sides and the finished floor height is at ground height. Thanks again. This forum is great for help and the responses came a lot faster than I thought they would. This is a great resource especially for the newbie!

[DRAWZILLA]

For your wall not fully displaying correctly, check your roof edges to see that they don't go beyond the wall surface.