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load bearing walls and girder

Robert Lee

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Hello all I am in the process of building a house. All the exterior walls are ICF. I am an electrician and have pretty good mechanical sense and am good with my hands so i took it upon myself as a kind of DIY project for the floors, I have a few worries hoping someone on this forum could help clears up...

The floor layout utilizes joist hangers going straight across with load bearing walls splitting the staircase and a drop girder made of three 2x12 and one 1x12 splitting the middle.

My first question is i had to belt sand the drop girder where the joist were running across down about a quarter inch is this going to cause a code violation?

My next question is there is a 6X6 post coming up and splits an I joist, I built out a little wall consisting of two 2x6's with a double top plate to catch the joist in front of the 6x6. Will that pass code?

I will post some pictures hopefully to help illustrate my questions

Thanks guys

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one more question the 6x6 post is sitting in a wall and i attached it simply with a half post base on top of the bottom pt plate I'm not sure if this is ok either... thanks
 
I am not an engineer

Did someone design it for you

Or did you borrow the design from somewhere??
 
I showed someone at the lumber supply my blueprints and they put together a package for the joist and girder
 
Who drew the blueprints??

Engineer or find them from another job or??
 
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