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CBO
Crawlspace photo:
Comments please
Comments please
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So overall it is a bad job huh?dhengr said: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.
I wish I was making this stuff up. This was new construction over a crawlspace.fatboy said: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.