'Murrican code question from a Canuck

[Inspector Gadget]

I live quite close to the Excited States. On Saturday, I had dinner at a bar/restaurant in Maine. Nice day, went on the covered porch/deck for dinner. Saw this - which would fail in Canada.

Would y'all accept this? The spacers on the lintel are 24" apart. Canadian codes limit spacers to 18". Just curious.

 

[steveray]

Not sure where you were in Maine, but not a lot of enforcement in rural Maine....There was talk of a bill only having a residential code in Towns over 50,000 people which is like 4....That likely wouldn't pass inspection here....For a few reasons....

 

[Inspector Gadget]

That likely wouldn't pass inspection here....For a few reasons....

This was Calais. I didn't do any real looking (was off duty with the other half, and would have been .... rightly chastized had I done so.)

 

[BN4537]

We don't do split beams here without engineering, if you want a double beam it's got to be laminated together.

 

[Inspector Gadget]

We don't do split beams here without engineering, if you want a double beam it's got to be laminated together.

In Canada, this would be an A2 assembly occupancy (bar/restaurant), so everything would require engineering by strict application.

Otherwise, I would be able (esp with a 8' total rafter span, so a 4' input) to consider the two elements as a two-ply lintel, as long as the filler pieces were no more than 18" apart *and* the two 2x10 elements could handle the snowload.

 

[my250r11]

Appear that the roof underlayment and drip edge were install incorrectly from all the water marking.