kenstrac
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Maybe the rookie contractor drove by or someone told him you were there and he had a few words with the owner.
Residential Code Question ???
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Maybe the rookie contractor drove by or someone told him you were there and he had a few words with the owner.
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My preference for a "quick fix" would be to drill and Simpson epoxy in threaded rod. Not that hard to do, and the next best thing to the preset foundation bolts.
Tapcon screws wouldn't even be a consideration.
Eddie
What size tapcon screws is he using and how far apart?
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Maybe you need to write the Father a letter thanking him for the opportunity to look at the house and confirming that you have closed your file on the house without determining if the house meets code or the contract specifications at his request effective as of such and such date. Or at least write a memo summarizing your findings for your files.
Something is up here and I''m not sure what it is.
Something is up here and I''m not sure what it is.
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Maybe it was just timing...
I was very conscientious when the Hospital was building a new addition... I was the go between between the contractors, mostly the general, and the Board of Directors...
My enthusiasm tended to disrupt the schedule at times while everyone would try to determine who was right and whose responsibility something was...
About the second week I had a meeting with the General and we agreed that I would submit my concerns in writing every Thursday afternoon or for pressing matters call him on his Cell...
The job did go much smoother after that... More than 80% of the time I was right and a couple were big items... the job took many months so most things did not have to be addressed on the spot...
A couple of times the architect or engineer had missed things that had nothing to do with the General Contractor...
The chief city inspector also turned out to be a lot of help... he was never demanding and stressed he wanted nothing more than a propert job... he was firm in his decisions and offered alternatives on occasion.
I was very conscientious when the Hospital was building a new addition... I was the go between between the contractors, mostly the general, and the Board of Directors...
My enthusiasm tended to disrupt the schedule at times while everyone would try to determine who was right and whose responsibility something was...
About the second week I had a meeting with the General and we agreed that I would submit my concerns in writing every Thursday afternoon or for pressing matters call him on his Cell...
The job did go much smoother after that... More than 80% of the time I was right and a couple were big items... the job took many months so most things did not have to be addressed on the spot...
A couple of times the architect or engineer had missed things that had nothing to do with the General Contractor...
The chief city inspector also turned out to be a lot of help... he was never demanding and stressed he wanted nothing more than a propert job... he was firm in his decisions and offered alternatives on occasion.
PILOON
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I second this suggestion,
in this day and age you might be held resposible,
Just can hear arguments down the road, "we did ask you to keep an eye on things etc....
Nice friendly letter ending in "Complimentary visit, (confirming dismissal)----no charge"
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OK I have to ask.........
A couple of people mentioned that they would never use a finger jointed stud. Is this based on a bad experience with them. If so do tell.
Charles, they are actually the same price as sawn stud not 25 cents cheaper and I still use them. You mentioned labor as being a large expense. These save a lot of labor.
I find them superior and have not had any problems only many benefits.
No worries about a knot being where you want to toe nail or run a plumbing pipe.
No twisting with humidity thus fewer nail pops.
No need to order 25% extra so that you can search for the straight studs.
A couple of people mentioned that they would never use a finger jointed stud. Is this based on a bad experience with them. If so do tell.
Charles, they are actually the same price as sawn stud not 25 cents cheaper and I still use them. You mentioned labor as being a large expense. These save a lot of labor.
I find them superior and have not had any problems only many benefits.
No worries about a knot being where you want to toe nail or run a plumbing pipe.
No twisting with humidity thus fewer nail pops.
No need to order 25% extra so that you can search for the straight studs.
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I don't know about finger jointed studs, but I have experience with finger jointed trim and I will avoid buying it again in the future. I installed it many years ago (can't remember how long) and it has come apart at the joints.
I went to buy more trim to replace the bad stuff so I went back where I bought the first batch (only place that I can get that design trim) and was trying to find it without finger joints. The guy that works in the trim section was helping me asked why I didn't want the finger jointed trim and I told him about how all the joints came apart and that maybe I didn't paint it properly. He told me it had exterior glue and for it to come apart like I described just shouldn't happen. OK it isn't supposed to but it did.
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Really stinks to be a 'volunteer' and get fired.
Could someone explain the california corners? Ive never heard of them in my area. Thanks
Could someone explain the california corners? Ive never heard of them in my area. Thanks
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Sorry to say, but using the fingerjointed trim in a place like the porch shown in the pics, is not a good place for softwood, regardless if it is fingerjointed or not. Moisture soaking into the wood is the problem. Something like cedar or redwood is the woods to use for this application. Such softwood trim is really not meant for outdoor use, and the rest of the porch railing and parts show that problem.
Fingerjointed studs are for walls used in a vertical (compression load) application. The only real purpose of a stud in the wall is to hold two membranes/surfaces (usually drywall on the inside and sheathing on the outside) at a fixed distance apart. The combination of surfaces and the stud forms a straight, strong wall. The stud is just the web in the middle and needs very little strength but is important that it stays straight. Not having the knots to lower strength and to cause warping of the studs, is a real benefit to having a straight wall.
Now, for something to worry about, is when they cut out the knots and then fingerjoint all the knots together to make door jambs.
It is true. They glue on a thin sheet of veneer to make the surface look like clear, straight grain wood. Think about trying to drill a hole for a door lock, and running into a 3" hard knot just below the surface. That'll make your day.dmccarty
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After Hurricane Floyd flooded a good bit of Eastern NC I went down to help with the cleanup on a couple of occasions.
The first trip was when the water was just going down in some areas. We went into a town that was still closed to the public. It was, well, a disaster.
Driving to this one town we had to go into an area flooded by the Neuse River. We found large fish in the road. The flotsam was 10-20 feet in the trees. Wooden stairs from mobile homes where in the middle of farm fields with now homes nearby. Farm fields were BLACK. A diary farmer had lost 100 cows that had drowned. No way to save them a few of them had busted in the door of a mobile home to get out of the rising water.
That did not last long and the water went over the top of the home. The cows drowned inside. FEMA burned the homes down. Nothing else to do. I have a photo somewhere of cow ribs sticking up out of the ashes near the axle.
We got to one town that was hit real bad. Cars had floated up on to cars in some sort of weird Detroit mating game. Caskets and vaults had popped out of the ground in grave yards. It looked like a horror film. Smelled bad. Real bad.
It was very surreal. We had stopped to look at the caskets and vaults in a grave yard. The street was empty of cars since most of them had been flooded and the town was closed anyway. Across the street was a large lot. There was a foundation close to the street with a house towards the back of the lot against the woods...
It did not look quite right...
Eventually I figured it out. The house had been built with no anchor bolts and it had floated "downstream" until the trees had stopped the house "boat". The water had not "destroyed" the house but had set it down very gently so that it looked like it had always been next to the trees when in fact it had floated a 100 feet or so.
Course the house was destroyed but it was very strange that the house was built with no anchors....
Later,
Dan
The first trip was when the water was just going down in some areas. We went into a town that was still closed to the public. It was, well, a disaster.
Driving to this one town we had to go into an area flooded by the Neuse River. We found large fish in the road. The flotsam was 10-20 feet in the trees.
Wooden stairs from mobile homes where in the middle of farm fields with now homes nearby. Farm fields were BLACK. A diary farmer had lost 100 cows that had drowned. No way to save them a few of them had busted in the door of a mobile home to get out of the rising water.That did not last long and the water went over the top of the home. The cows drowned inside. FEMA burned the homes down. Nothing else to do. I have a photo somewhere of cow ribs sticking up out of the ashes near the axle.
We got to one town that was hit real bad. Cars had floated up on to cars in some sort of weird Detroit mating game. Caskets and vaults had popped out of the ground in grave yards. It looked like a horror film. Smelled bad. Real bad.
It was very surreal. We had stopped to look at the caskets and vaults in a grave yard. The street was empty of cars since most of them had been flooded and the town was closed anyway. Across the street was a large lot. There was a foundation close to the street with a house towards the back of the lot against the woods...
It did not look quite right...
Eventually I figured it out. The house had been built with no anchor bolts and it had floated "downstream" until the trees had stopped the house "boat". The water had not "destroyed" the house but had set it down very gently so that it looked like it had always been next to the trees when in fact it had floated a 100 feet or so.
Course the house was destroyed but it was very strange that the house was built with no anchors....
Later,
Dan