Dallas_Lilly
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If it is anything like coconino county then I am guessing that it isn't that you can't have a blaze king, it cannot be your only source of heat. My house has a furnace but we haven't lit the pilot in three years
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MotorSeven
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.............and then???
Where ya at Bo?
Where ya at Bo?
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BoFuller
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MotorSeven said:
I've been up a few times but it's been so muddy I havent got much done. Last weekend was better, as I worked on clearing the build site.
I needed to get the high side of the site cut down in order to have the acceptable slope for drainage. My neighbor came over to borrow a tool and I told him I didn't know if I could finish it or not, as the ground was getting too hard for my tractor and back scraper. Next day I went down to the local well to fill up the water trailer and when I got back I found my neighbor there with his grader, cutting a foot deep groove, to get me my slope.
I love good neighbors!!
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BoFuller
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This Friday an inspector from TPI will be there to "grade" my logs. I'll be heading up tomorrow. Still waiting for engineer to finish his part. The plan checker wants him to provide his calculations for all the connections. He's scratching his head and saying, "why?"
Ken
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Good Morning Mr. Fuller.
Looks like the inspectors are going to keep up the getting details until the snow flys then they will wonder why you never got any work done.
To them it is just another paper pushing day. and paper work is a necessary part of any gov. work force.
"Never do today that can be put off until tommorow"
keep the faith that it will be completed and record all the forms they have sent for no reason.
some day can write a book.
ken
MotorSeven
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Man they sure are holding you up....calculations for connections? What connections?
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BoFuller
Veteran Member
Every joint, as in; floor to wall; ridge pole to ridge pole support logs; ridge pole support logs to walls; roof rafters to ridge pole; roof rafters to cap logs; interior stud walls to log wall; wherever there is any kind of connection between logs, or logs and lumber.
If the engineer says it is okay, who is she to question him with backup calculations? Got me.
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BoFuller
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The guy came to grade my logs today. He arrived about 1:00 and left at 6:00 and we only got about half of the logs done. Never in my wildest imagination did I think he was going to be so detailed. I had heard stories of inspectors looking at logs for 5 minutes and then stamping them. This kid made me move every single log out to where he could inspect every square inch of it. He scratched about 6 of them for having too much twist to the grain ( 1 inch in 6 where the minimum is 1 in 8 ). A few he found a spot the size of a half dollar that was soft and said "too much decay". I said the diameter is 28 inches and you're scratching it for an 1/8 of an inch of decay about 2 inches across??? He stamped 30 out of about 40 and said he had to leave. Cost me $658 for the privilege of getting totally discouraged. I hate the government more everyday.
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mjncad
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You're not the only one.