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    catheral cielings ridge beam

    I remember that ties used to be required every 4'. I'm curious as to the reasons behind the change, the plates, 2@2x6 now, can certainly carry the thrust to the next tied rafter, double the heeljoint nailing... I don't recall any prescription on the heeljoint connection.
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    catheral cielings ridge beam

    At the risk of engendering the heat of ICE... I've seen palm trees in his pics, I haven't seen design loads or species and grade. Not saying he's wrong but I believe you just accepted structural sizing off the internet without all the variables known. Older codebooks of mine didn't have...
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    catheral cielings ridge beam

    3 pages in, I forget the question. A nail is a metal connection. Rafter to plate is tied with a hurricane strap for uplift unless nail calcs show they are sufficient, we simply use them out of habit. The rafters are hanging from a ridgebeam where they press against a ridgeboard. The top...
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    2012 Wood Frame Construction Manual

    Your short courses are very good and worthwhile, I've passed on what I've learned on the jobsite. At the normal price you won't connect with the builder community. I've been the only builder at most of these types of classes. I've wondered if our land grant university could send advanced...
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    Compressed Earth Blocks!!!

    A lime plaster is fairly common on old work. I've seen it claimed that it is dry where portland is wet, that it can "heal" by moving lime into a small crack, and that it gets stronger with age as the lime absorbs co2 and reverts back to limestone.Old timberfarmes often formed the structural...
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    Judge Rebukes 2 Lawyers Profiting From U.S. Disability Law

    Not exactly sure how that angry icon got in the post, I thought I clicked the laughing at the end of my last sentence and then thought better and deleted it. Don't pith off a smiley!
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    Judge Rebukes 2 Lawyers Profiting From U.S. Disability Law

    Our old turn of the century courthouse is now a community center, donated and run by a non profit. It was brought up to standards at the time of conversion. About a month ago they got the letter. From 350 miles away by someone who had never set foot in the county. The list was fairly long and...
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    2 x 2 ledger strip fastening

    The only limitation I see is 2x2 nominal minimum and headers have to be in approved hangers... damn they caught me welding again... and I use 1/4". Just more thoughts, the ledger is loading the girder in tension perp. to grain. I haven't done the connection math for a typical span but I'll bet...
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    2 x 2 ledger strip fastening

    R602.3(1) item 29 in my '09, still there with nail specs even. Please don't do this in any construction if it means you're putting that nasty splitting notch on the joists. Get off your wallet and wrap under that unnotched bottom with a Simpson hanger and nails in shear. That 2x2 rolls out as...
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    Opening between deck boards

    I usually clamp a rack of boards at a time and screw them down. you do ned to have some idea of the moisture content. i've blown a rim off when the wood was very dry and we got rain. I've also had the gaps stay slammed tight up against the house on the north side, not a good thing. I now...
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    In IRC is a Beam a Girder?

    Lose the term girder or header and use the term "beam". I know its hard for a bureaucrat to not parse semantics, it's hanging you up. You can take apart your own logic by considering that the terms header and girder are used in that table, the top/side argument falls apart right there. A beam...
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    In IRC is a Beam a Girder?

    This page is not finished, but it might help with some of the concepts, comments always welcome. beam_design1
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    In IRC is a Beam a Girder?

    A beam is a member that resists load in bending. A girder is a beam that resists loads delivered to it by other beams. a girder may have loads on top of it (a dropped girder) or the loads may hang from the sides ( a flush girder), or the loads could be dangling from it. If the term is confusing...
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    Facebook links

    I've always brought up the new posts menu and then right click and open in a new tab any topics I wish to read, closing that tab when I'm done but not having to return to the menu. Don't know if that'll work around.
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    Building Permits for <$20,000

    Wow, you have a powerful equine lobby. I think someone here last week said a horse isn't a farm animal, it appears to be the only farm animal in NC.
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    Roof Truss collapse

    Church collapse here last year. The multi truss assembly had side wings of mono trusses capped by cathedral scissors over the sanctuary. They failed to adequately brace the vertical wall portion of the monos and started up with the scissors. Luckily a slow 2 day collapse. It did a partial roll...
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    There was significant Shrinkage...

    The Shrinkulator remember these are averages of a natural material there' ~15% variation. They are also based on very thin clear, normal, wood sections. Internal stresses usually reduce the overall shrinkage compared to these numbers. Then, when you get into heavy timber, the wood often checks...
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    SPIB releases updated SYP design values

    This was released today, Appendix A is short and a good overview http://www.spib.org/pdfs/SupplementNo13RevisedFebruary11.pdf When I need to span a little further I've often reached for a SYP 2x12 The old Fb for a #2 was 975, new is 750, SPF is 875 E, old-1.6, new 1.4, SPF 1.4 Well, it'll...
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    There was significant Shrinkage...

    I wouldn't disregard it entirely for low rise, log homes get into settlement considerations as soon as you leave the foundation.
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    For those who remember....haha

    I believe someone just turned off the cloaking device cap'n. Inventors tend to be...different. I don't want to see it code required but he isn't wrong.
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    stone veneer substrate

    I am curious, if this is called adhered, adhered to what? With brick veneer we maintain a gap, why is this omitted with lick and stick stone? If this is stucco its the leakiest stucco imagineable. I've been uncomfortable with the whole concept from that end. The nails hold the mesh which holds...
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    plan review fees in ordiance

    A good many places I've worked had no fee but plan review occured at the framing inspection.
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    Two Story Cantilever

    Brings to mind the old jettied timberframes overhanging the streets in places in europe. In some cases the back walls have more column or even masonry where they are out on heavily loaded overhanging beams in front. as they have deflected and crept over the years not only do the buildings step...
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    Coming Soon The Building Code Forum EStore

    I don't know if any of the tech book publishers might be interested in working with you. Over the years I've bought a shelf full of books from Wiley, McGraw-Hill, etc. You do have a concentrated target audience. I think Amazon will pay you if someone clicks through a link on your site to buy a...
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    Floor joist to 'rat slab' clearance

    Darn, now I've gotta crawl back under there and fork the plastic
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