mark handler
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Unless the design person (Engineer or Architect) changes that, that is what is required.
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Is This Normal?
- Thread starter arwat23
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Yankee Chronicler
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As a code official I don't care, but as an architect I wonder if the engineer is wasting the client's money. If the construction documents call for #1 Douglas Fir, that's what has to be used. But how many of the spans and loads actually require #1? How many could be done using #2 Doug Fir without bumping up to the next size?