Beam end bearing at splice

[jar546]

Crawlspace photo:

Comments please

 

[dhengr]

Other than high strength air, what’s holding up the left beam? And, that better be strong air because the bearing area is mighty small. Normally, a piece of lath does not cut it as a shim, because it does not have an allowable stress in compression perpendicular to the grain which is equal to or greater than the beam or blocks below. The PT bottom block is good. The blocks below should be centered under the joint, and there should be some side plates btwn. the two beams to tie them together, or adequate nailing btwn. them and their plys. Furthermore, those beams can be pretty tippy when not blocked laterally, unless they are several plys wide.

 

[jar546]

Other than high strength air, what’s holding up the left beam? And, that better be strong air because the bearing area is mighty small. Normally, a piece of lath does not cut it as a shim, because it does not have an allowable stress in compression perpendicular to the grain which is equal to or greater than the beam or blocks below. The PT bottom block is good. The blocks below should be centered under the joint, and there should be some side plates btwn. the two beams to tie them together, or adequate nailing btwn. them and their plys. Furthermore, those beams can be pretty tippy when not blocked laterally, unless they are several plys wide.

So overall it is a bad job huh?

 

[GHRoberts]

I don't see any fasteners. Either the high strength air is doing it's job, or we are not getting the entire picture.

 

[Daddy-0-]

We don't allow wood shims on piers. I think their elevation was a LITTLE off. Pretty close to the edge of the pier too.

 

[fatboy]

Again, you get a WOW out of me. Sometimes I wonder if you make this sh!t up Jeff, but then there's the pictures.

 

[Architect1281]

That's the accepted South of the equator detail

All fasteners are above in photo.

Actually a downunder connector by PROC MOSPMIS

 

[jar546]

Again, you get a WOW out of me. Sometimes I wonder if you make this sh!t up Jeff, but then there's the pictures.

I wish I was making this stuff up. This was new construction over a crawlspace.

 

[KZQuixote]

Jeff,

Isn't a multi ply beam 3 2X8's or 10's?

Bill

 

[peach]

The pier is big enough to properly support the splice.. ALTHOUGH, it's still not a proper splice.. aren't they supposed to overlap or connect?