Just tried it out today "proofreading" a report I hurried thru that was basically just bullet points. It is amazing how nice of a report it created.
Man, I cannot even fathom the job losses that are coming.
Got a customer wanting to use a staggered stud wall for thermal break purposes. It will use 2x8 plates and 2x6 @ 24" O.C. at the exterior and 2x4 @ 24" O.C. on the interior. The wall is about 11 ft. tall. has a 15 psf wind and about 500 plf axial. Have we decided that fastening one "flange" of...
I have some customers that have a 7 year old house with an attic served by a pull-down stairs. The roof/attic is pre-engineered trusses spaced 24" O.C. The attic space is 8 ft. wide x 8 ft. tall x 20 ft. long (10 trusses) . The trusses span 38 ft. and have 2x6 top and bottom chords. The truss...
Spending some time in NYC and there is scaffolding everywhere. They all seem to be constructed basically the same. None of the purlin beams are ever attached to the dropped girder. Seems if something big fell on it, it could bounce the purlins off the girders and hit someone. What are your...
24" O.C. room truss designed for 40 psf floor live. 16 ft. wide room, 2x10 bottom chord. Could that massive plate in the middle being used to create a moment connection? Otherwise, are they counting on an 8 ft. cantilever on the joist? It does say 40 PSF live load in the room area in notes that...
I'm vacationing in NOLA - staying right on Bourbon Street. Went out to dinner and was seated on a 2nd story cantilevered balcony. Anytime someone walked, it shook enough for me to be scared to be on it It appears to be basically supported by 3/8x3" bar stock cantilevered out about 4 ft and...
This is the wish of the Arch/Owner on a screened porch. This is the typical eave side of a gable roof. The members support a beam that supports the roof framing. The demand on the 2x6's is about 1,000 lbs. ASD. The 2x6's actually check out (with gravity loads and a 200lb horizontal point load...
2.5k ASD demand., 10 deg. skew. I thought the beams stacked on top of each other but apparently not. Any way to justify a standard hanger (HU414) ? Can make get a red-iron one made if needed. Don't want to go the custom Simpson route.
W8x67 flush beam w/ 2x10 joists on each side. This is how I showed the beam being packed out....
This is what I got.. Basically, they did not put the OSB in and just cranked the (2)2x8 into the kern of the beam so it is sitting about 3/8" inside the edge of the flange...
Now the hangers are...
I don't do a lot of these any more as siding seems to be in-vogue around here. This house has 3 5/8" limestone veneer (44 PSF). How do y'all handle the situations where the lower roofs abut the 2-story portion? My goto has been to carry the veneer on angle bearing on a triple rafter (per the...
Is it any worse than any other residential dropped beam? I have a lowered ceiling (not shown) on the left side flush with the bottom of the beam if needed to resolve the torsion. Just curious of other's thoughts w/o the ceiling.
Revisiting this connector as a contractor wants to use it to attach a deck. How is pullout and side-to-side shear resisted? The tables only give downloads.
https://ssttoolbox.widen.net/view/pdf/4xrs6kps1z/C-C-2024_p316-317.pdf?t.download=true
Another case of Simpson only solving 1/2 the...
I have a situation where a contractor wants to use tempered glass as an infill panel for a residential deck guardrail. The glass comes with a perimeter aluminum frame that then screws to the surrounding structure. The panel will fasten to the deck surface at the base and wood balusters at the...
On my 1st Gen Tundra, lower BJ failures are common. So common that it is standard practice to replace them with OEM every 100k miles. Toyota had a recall and improved the joints but the failures persist.
Seems the issue is the suspension is designed so the joint is in tension. Spring/shock...
Well, y'all know by now, I don't like i-joists. Here is reason #21.
I looked at flush, sloped hangers (LSSR2.1Z) and they are like $20 a piece.
How do y'all handle this situation?
Honestly, money is not an issue on this job, but it is just against my principals for someone to spend $20 on a...
