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Richard
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- Knoxville, TN
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- International 1066 Full sized JCB Loader/Backhoe and a John Deere 430 to mow with
Update part II and maybe some good karma coming my way!!
Long story short...this engineer/architect lives maybe 30 miles away (i live in the boonies).
I've been chatting with him and sending him some emails back/forth.
Snippets of his last email:
"What is needed at the outside, octagon corners is a Simpson Flat Plate, (bent to the angle required on the jobsite) approximately three inches by 12 inches, bent and nailed on either side of the corner to keep the corner together under stress. That can be covered up by a simple 1 x 4 or 1 x 6 band going all the way around the octagon
section of the addition.
My concerns about the outward thrust along the outside wall parallel to the ridge would also go away if that wall dimension was only 10 to 12 foot as it looks in the pictures.
Let me know what is happening with the contractor's engineer or whatever it was you described in the first e-mail of today. There will be no charges from me on this project."
Did I read that right?
no charges for his help?
patooey!!! he might not charge me but I think I'm going to go to one of the nicer places to eat around here and maybe get him a nice gift certificate so he and his wife can have dinner out on me!!
Heck... I might even throw in a Happy Meal for him...
He's done all this by simply looking at pictures and going over my descriptions of what has been done in the pictures (I've sent him more detailed pictures than I've shown here)
During the process of doing this, the wife thought I was kind of silly taking all the pictures I took but I told her, I was simply trying to visually document what was going on. This way, if we ever had a question about where an electrical line was routed (through a log or wall) I'd have some reference.
Little did I know I'd find good use for those pictures before the place even passed final inspection.
Long story short...this engineer/architect lives maybe 30 miles away (i live in the boonies).
I've been chatting with him and sending him some emails back/forth.
Snippets of his last email:
"What is needed at the outside, octagon corners is a Simpson Flat Plate, (bent to the angle required on the jobsite) approximately three inches by 12 inches, bent and nailed on either side of the corner to keep the corner together under stress. That can be covered up by a simple 1 x 4 or 1 x 6 band going all the way around the octagon
section of the addition.
My concerns about the outward thrust along the outside wall parallel to the ridge would also go away if that wall dimension was only 10 to 12 foot as it looks in the pictures.
Let me know what is happening with the contractor's engineer or whatever it was you described in the first e-mail of today. There will be no charges from me on this project."
Did I read that right?
no charges for his help?
patooey!!! he might not charge me but I think I'm going to go to one of the nicer places to eat around here and maybe get him a nice gift certificate so he and his wife can have dinner out on me!!
Heck... I might even throw in a Happy Meal for him...
He's done all this by simply looking at pictures and going over my descriptions of what has been done in the pictures (I've sent him more detailed pictures than I've shown here)
During the process of doing this, the wife thought I was kind of silly taking all the pictures I took but I told her, I was simply trying to visually document what was going on. This way, if we ever had a question about where an electrical line was routed (through a log or wall) I'd have some reference.
Little did I know I'd find good use for those pictures before the place even passed final inspection.
