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I'm not as concerned about the old stud because there's a couple new ones to the left of it. The one on the right concerns me more. Did some idiot actually cut all the way through that stud just to run a wire?
 
Would the "Man who Draws" pass a 1-inch bearing? or 3/4-inch bearing?

Does Joist Hanger Manufacture design their products for Larry, Curly and Moe as the contractors?
Just asking?

I'm pretty sure manufacture wants some nails in the FJ's too!

No stamp, does that get the Architect a free pass in court?
 
How would they explain all of the divots? My guys used to be the jokers. They nailed a new guys bags at the peak of a really tall truss. It was a climb to get there and when he did, he found out that the hammer and cat's paw were not there. They stacked conex containers three high to send a message to a contractor that wasn't in the right frame of mind. They made wood blocks to fit under my axles. I came out of the watering hole and all looked normal. The tires were 1/2" off the ground. They had to do front and back axles on a Bronco.

Mid 70's Colorado Springs
When I worked building basements in Colorado, one of the crew was in the blue room when Martin Corely (a company owner) parked his truck next to it and dropped a cherry bomb down the vent. Months later Martin stopped at a blue room a few blocks away from us. Victor (another company owner) saw that and told the kid that the keys were in his truck and there are cherry bombs on the seat. The kid hopped in the truck and nailed the blue room at a little under ten miles per hour. Damn near killed Martin. He was really hard to tolerate before the **** hit the Martin and he was awful after. Every time that martin came on the job....well we tried to be respectful, but be reasonable, it was hilarious.

Chico Ca. early 90's
I was the lead and Kieth was #2. Kieth was a far superior carpenter but I had good bullshit. So anyway, there we were with a company of around a hundred, building condo's. Kieth was a fat kid and I was not. The crew called us Fatman and Robin. John Colon made a stencil of a fat bat....more like an obese bat. Well we had a Toyota that had to be hauled to jobs sites and of course it and our containers had big (24") green fat bats.

The city inspector was a pill. He drove an orange Cushman pickup. One day he left with a green fat bat on the tailgate. The inspector and I were on a second floor and I saw through a window as Colon and Brent did the deed. I made sure to walk the inspector to his little death trap from the front.
 
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Are the double rafters sandwiching the original unchanged rafters? Was anything wrong with to the original framing? Was the new framing about more depth for insulation? I can't tell from photos if all the original framing that has been gone for 100 years or do is still there.
 
bill1952 said:
Are the double rafters sandwiching the original unchanged rafters? Was anything wrong with to the original framing? Was the new framing about more depth for insulation? I can't tell from photos if all the original framing that has been gone for 100 years or do is still there.
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The rafters they were sistering to were original, but they had originally been supported or tied together at multiple locations along their span, which has all been removed, so all of the loading is now completely different.

Yes, they are expanding the roof cavity for spray foam, and they are sandwiching existing 2x4 rafters.

I walked around studying it, but I couldn't figure out how to make everything work prescriptively without messing up their design, so I told them to get a structural engineer do a full evaluation of the roof.
 
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