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You certainly would not want to specify that particular bonding agent. You have an issue with open working times where the repair has to...

There's no way to make an intelligent assessment based on those tiny little pictures. The OP said: "I can't imagine that typical truss...

It certainly raises my hackles a bit. I would like to see the layout that includes these trusses. Sort of? In these situations, a...

The use of toenails at a ridge board is common and allowed everywhere I have been, but a ridge board is not much if any of a structural...

We always show the weights right on plan. That's what the joist manufacturer is going to look for. Sometimes we'll show KCS if the unit...

I'd reach out to a local pool contractor. They probably know best what is and isn't allowed in that town. Like I said around here it...

Toe nailing would never be passed by an inspector around here for a structural member. Hangers are like $1.25 a piece. Engineering...

Really can't say I like that one. I know it looks like it should work in theory and does match up to the theoretical model pretty well...

Is the pool in a floodway? A flood zone is not a floodway.

There have been projects where I walk in under a completed deck and see stars of light everywhere....i.e. burn-through welds. That...

This is how we design 99% of multi-story decks. Beams on the side of a post like a ledger are a disaster long-term. We'll also invert...

Full height columns are difficult beyond two floors, and even then you're limited in your connection options - bolting the girder to the...

Everyone and their mother-in-law has a pool by me fully in the flood zone. Most pools have a few helical or timber piles attached to the...

Behold. Unique set of circumstances, so don't take away from this that the hangers were the cause. They weren't. Can't go into more...

Weyerhaeuser has a nice tech article affirming that you should not load below NA. Link Something to consider going forward. Given that...