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    Slab on Grade for Modular/Mobile Home Installation

    I regularly design cookie cutter foundations (frost protected, full basement, block, poured, etc...), but I have been asked to design a simple slab on grade pad for a Double Wide home installation. I can't really convince myself that a simple 6" pad with Welded Wire Fabric (WWF) will suffice...
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    Am I reading Code Incorrectly?

    Good Evening All, Quick question about Residential Code, Section %502.5(2) - Girder Spans and Header Spans For Interior Bearing Walls... Since I have a good depression on the side of my house I was thinking about making a garage under a prefab cape code type addition... I am looking at some...
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    NYS SWPPP Question

    peter... If I claim that the grading/terracing along with vegetative barriers to runoff, along with check dams in road culverts (if we even call them culverts, they will just be small depression along road between lots) could be used as green infrastructure, correct? Thanks again for the guidance.
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    NYS SWPPP Question

    No development services department, just a planning board, that will use another local engineer to review the documents for approvals and comment. I used TR-55 NRCS program to model the pre and post development conditions. It is a 14ac site, but only about 1.65 acres of impervious area...
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    NYS SWPPP Question

    Sorry for the duplicate post here... I was recommended to move it to this forum... Thanks in advance for any info and opinion. I have been asked by a family member to help them with, what appears to be, a fairly simple SWPPP/SEQR permit. He/She is expanding upon an existing Mobile Home...
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    water hammer

    Valve timing. Use a self closing valve and slow down the time in takes to completely shut the valve. Only "slam" it closed in an emergency. You can hydraulic, mechanical, or air accuated automatic valves readily.
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    NYS SWPPP Question

    I have been asked by a family member to help them with, what appears to be, a fairly simple SWPPP/SEQR permit. He/She is expanding upon an existing Mobile Home Community. The expanded area is on slope, but will be terraced to properly build pads for the manufactured homes. there will only be...
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    Looking to Use Steel Beam in Residential application

    YEs. Sorry for teh confusion. I didn't intend to splict the beam, rather I wanted to know if anything special was needed to join them at the column supporting the ends of each. I was assuming some sort of splice plate to keep them together longitudinally, but nothing that will be considered a...
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    Looking to Use Steel Beam in Residential application

    Excavation costs are nothing bug fuel for me (HAve access to excavator and heavy equipment). I have a mason lined up for CMU or concrete pour (all of his labor free due to giving him free rent at my 80x60 pole barn, and I grew up with him). Only reason I'm trying to get as big as I can is...
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    Wood Column size and prescriptive Code

    NDS.. ahhhh Totally slipped to look there. I was thinking that it must have been outlined in the Residential code that I was blinded.
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    Looking to Use Steel Beam in Residential application

    You are correct. I looked at engineered I joists and I have found some that will be clear span at 28ft but for second floor use. If I decide not to make this only 28ft or decide to go heavier loading I think that the engineered floor trusses won't work or might get very expensive at such close...
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    Looking to Use Steel Beam in Residential application

    Sorry for the confusion... 1) "I am a NY PE, not a home owner." then "I am designing a structure for MY OWN RESIDENCE" ? I typically mention that I am a PE, not just a homeowner looking for a quick answer on here. I say this to let any potential responder know that they should not shy from...
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    Looking to Use Steel Beam in Residential application

    Sorry to confuse. If I went with the hollow core they would be clear span modules. I was just responding to SU10's comment on the concrete floor
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    Looking to Use Steel Beam in Residential application

    When I say connecting them longitudinally I am referring to a long narrow type structure of greater than 40ft. I am thinking my structure will be approx 28ft x 48ft. I am thinking that I am not going to get a beam over 40ft in length (or get one shipped very cost effective) so I would have two...
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    Looking to Use Steel Beam in Residential application

    I will most likely be doing my own design because I really don't think that the steel will provide much in advantage and I will probably go with LVL and I joists, but I am now curious to the applications and designs of this scenario with steel beam. I'm stumped on how to connect the beams...
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    Looking to Use Steel Beam in Residential application

    CANPRO. Didn't think about the shrinkage of the joist. Good call. Hmmmm, what would be a decent offset? 1/8"? I have never thought of the amount the joist wil actually shrink.
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    Looking to Use Steel Beam in Residential application

    CEL.. I'm in NY and I don't see many residential with Steel beams with the introduction of the LVL. I appreciate the concern for hiring an engineer, but this is my own structure, and it won't be built for another year (most likely two), so I would like to gain as much knowledge and information...
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    Looking to Use Steel Beam in Residential application

    IT would actually be a new build with crane/telehandler access. We can pour footing as necessary, and design wall supports as necessary. We did something similar to what you described when I was a kid to an old home the family owned. Huge pain. Lots of people to lift, and tight spaces due to...
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    Looking to Use Steel Beam in Residential application

    Not quick tips. I am trying to move away from brute force method of designing from scratch, and try to use more prescriptive methods if available. Yes, I am a younger engineer with my PE. I am asked all of the time to do small project for people that I typically turn down, but that does not...
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    Looking to Use Steel Beam in Residential application

    Yes, residential contractors hat the steel I-beam idea. I am competent in the design of the beam and column, but the connections allude me. Never asked to do steel in residential construction.

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