We do some minor jacking but rarely get carried away with it. Any jacking does require either pinning on both sides or one pin, but it is directly under the load to lift.
We also have to deal with the footings being able to span between jacks. Typically, only 5' to 6' spacing is used because...
Not something that sounds like a great idea. If I had to do it, I would use a larger diameter fastener if possible. The 1/4" does not leave you much allowance for the 2 2x4s getting some separation or weakening for any reason.
If you are working in Texas, from what I have heard, you have an endless supply of potential work. Swelling soils are one of the main sources of helical anchor usage typically.
I would stay away from side-mounted. I worked a legal case where they did not chip back the concrete. The put the...
In #2, what do you mean by side mounted?
In #4, what direction is the eccentricity you refer to?
There are multiple nuances to look into before get into this. I have seen several anchor contractors use anchors for a problem that anchors cannot correct. As an example, a bowed 8” hollow block...
I love lawyers that show me how a golf ball rolls across a floor. I ask them what should it do? They say stay still. I say even if someone designed a floor so flat the ball would stay still, it will roll after they put furniture, belongings and themselves in the room. They don't generally...
That is how most of the CJS I have seen were generally framed. Short "joist lookouts" we used to call them, that were 2' or so long and framed from the wall to the last CJ that was perpendicular to the ridge. There is another tension tie that is relied on we used to call a "hog trough". It is...
They have made changes to hip framing over the years that have made improvements, with the main one being a requirement that the end of the ridge board have a vertical brace rather than relying on the 3 common rafters at the end of the ridge board. I too am amazed at the hips roofs in snow...
When you say "floating roof", what are you describing? Is it the fact a cantilever sags/rises at the free end?
I would think serviceability issues are difficult to explain after the fact rather than before the project is built. The Owner does not want to deal with them and after it is built...
If those are 10d nails, that would be my first concern. They look bigger to me in the pictures but if they are 10d, they also look like 10d CC rather than 10d Bright Common, so not a lot of diameter. I still have to wrap my head around Box Nails, CC Nails and Bright Common all having...
Actually looks simple and reasonably conservative to me. I do not know how much wind load you have where you are at, but I assume you checked the truss for LTB of the lower chord for wind uplift. I did not see any lower chord lateral braces at the frame lines but not needed if the lower...
Human909, I agree, having a variety of viewpoints and perspectives is very enlightening and helpful.
Let me relay what I recall from 1975. The president, Ford I think, passed the law. It did not mandate private business had to change but the government "encouraged" industry to adopt metric...
Parts per million was just intended to be a joke like saying I can convert imperial time to metric time. And no offense, but I guess we just have to agree to disagree on what "converting to the metric system means". To me, it meant converting to the standards used in the metric system.
I do not see that as converting to the metric system, that is restating everything in metric units such as 12 oz = 355 ml. Converting to the metric system, is adopting their standards such as rafters on 60cm spacings (23.62"), not 24" on center and drinks in 400 ml containers. Canada is...
Where they also the inventor of the Climate Controlled Warehouse concept, it is cold outside, so it is cold inside, it hot outside so it is hot inside, and it is raining outside, but thanks to our permeable roof covering design, it is raining inside?
