Legacy Code Report ESR 2690 & R403.1.6

[ajweaver]

Legacy Code Report ESR 2690 & R403.1.6

Section 403.1 .6 references requiring " Approved fasteners " for interior bearing walls that are not structural braced wall panels.

Definition of Approved states " approved by building official " .

Question 1 - does the approval of Ramset fasteners via ESR 2690

provide a building official a technical means to support acceptance of Ramset fasteners

Question 2 - do ESR reports ( thru ICC acceptance )

supersede any specific written code and where/if a Legacy code may be contrary to written code, which one prevails.

Aaron Weaver

 

[TJacobs]

Is this the portion of text you are referencing?

Interior bearing wall sole plates on monolithic slab foundation shall be positively anchored with approved fasteners.

Can I assume you are talking about walls that are not a part of a braced wall line?

 

[ajweaver]

Text is correct, and yes I am referring to non braced wall panel/lines

Good meeting y'all in Denver.

 

[TJacobs]

Upon further review:

Q1: yes, as long as all conditions of use in the report are complied with.

Q2: the ESR report does not supercede code; the report verifies that as an alternative to the prescriptive code (see Section 2.0), the code requirements the listing references are met when using the product as described.

http://www.ramset.com/pdfs/Ramset_approvals/ESR-2690.pdf

 

[Uncle Bob]

Aaron,

Legacy Reports are not code requirements. They may be used by the code official; but, where differences between legacy reports and requirements of the code occur; the provisions of the codes shall apply.

Legacy Reports are helpful where the code isn't specific conserning types of materials and methods used; but, the code official is not required to accept or use them.

Uncle Bob

 

[ajweaver]

Cool, Thanks.