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I started getting these targeted ads from this company on instagram and facebook. I don't know, it bothers me a lot. So they sell these transparent sheets and they persuade you to put them on top of your pergola. Pergolas in my area do not need an engineer. But as soon as you add roofing...

I think sidewalk shed is a temporary roof added above sidewalk to protect pedestrians from construction. For 40K, for sure steel columns.

I am 1 man company. I just use google. I get 1 custom domain email, simple website, google drive. I put all of my project files in the google drive. It is saving them on my local drive but automatically sync to google drive. I can make any file or folder shareable to anyone if I choose to...

Did they build a framed wall below the beam to the slab on grade? Maybe the soil is expansive? Not sure what level the beam is.

why do you need to tie back the cmu? Wouldnt the pressure of the backfill will keep them against the 2" insulation? Also from reading the spec on the zip R, I will need 1" air gap also. I think I will specify 6" CMU.

Just dry stack the CMU and backfill?

The zip R system and the rigid foam makes the stone veneer too far away from face of the concrete. Probably a bad idea to use steel angle

That is correct. All the way to the footing is what I am thinking.

This happens all of the time. Tell them to just rip the lath and plaster and replace with drywall. No point of trying to fix it with the old method unless it is just a small area.

I am working with an architect where he wants to put 2" rigid insulation on the exterior face of the concrete basement wall. Then above that, we will have stick framed wall with ZIP-R system (1" insulation). So the face of the plywood Zip-R system will stick out 1.5" from the face of the...

Can you point me where that is? If NDS has values for toe nailing, I don't see how that is not allowed?

Yes I was thinking like that too.. but the rafters are only 5 ft long, that's why I am second guessing myself.

So you also dislike toe nailing?

For the detail I am doing, the wood on top of the steel will not be a nailer. I only nail the plywood to the 2x8 rafters. So if I use hangers, it will be face mount hangers. The roof is 6:12 slope. If we do the notch you were suggesting, they have to notch both top and bottom. They have...

Hmm.. good idea XR250! May have to do that.