If you increase the floor diaphragm strength, you can create longer interior shear walls thus reducing the lateral loads for the outside of a home.
But the house I have has many open areas with not much wall, and I was wondering of other idea's that some have had that are working?
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I agree, we use other items for uplift... the overturning and shear I am trying to transfer to other locations.
Also, as any structure is sometimes we have interior walls and other times we don't.
I have in the past placed a holddown in a corner of a home and then another 16" inward "with a...
As of late I have been increasing my floor diaphragm sheathing thickness with my exterior shear wall sheathing thickness and finally my panel nailing pattern... all of these items will create a stronger home to reduce the high load I am getting for Holddowns... my question is this... what else...
