I've got a 'Identrust Global Common Basic Assurance' certificate and it was $81 last year. Haven't gotten around to renewing so I am not sure if they have raised the cost
I went with identrust after reading some threads on here. They've got a few different levels of verification/cost but if you tell them you're just looking for the Florida PE licensure verification, someone pointed me to exactly what i needed
I'm with you. For my CAD seal I just modified the text of the cad file someone else had been using for 20 years
It would not take more than 5 minutes to draw a stamp in CAD, no $20 needed.
For such a red 'party of small government' state, Florida's government is way more involved than is...
Framers in my area would want to platform frame it...stop the studs with top plates at the ceiling height, and build a knee wall on top of the ceiling joists.
For sure. I work a lot in SDC D so the IRC backs us up on that front fortunately.
But, the way I see it going in SDC A,B,C, is that a contractor ignores the blocking in our drawings, and when we push for it they could be savvy enough to be in the owners ear citing a specific code section...
I share your frustration in this area. R602.10.8.2 goes as far as saying that heel heights of less than 9.25" in SDC A,B,C specifically do not require blocking.
I've also seen a lot of these rationalized using the hold down hardware to resist overturning but I am not a fan. If a shear wall is...
'...must be considered in the column design' does not mean 'must apply a moment at the top of the column'. Rationalizing whether the column actually sees and needs to be designed for moment is 'considering the eccentricity in the design'
It looks like lexpatries article references the AISC...
I don't think I've ever had someone reach out deliberately with the question either but I occasionally get truss shops where it was obviously not understood, and have had to review already constructed stick framing occasionally that was also installed by someone that did not understand.
I...
The span direction is obvious in the OP due to the layout, but if it were a square bay with the two arrow types I honestly wouldn't be 100% confident in which direction is intended, even with the legend. I would probably have to dig through the plan to find an obvious location like pictured to...
Its not really relevant but the unpictured joists are in the kitchen with granite countertops all over the place, so they have a tighter spacing.
I like the jog to differentiate between the 'joist' line which is always straight, and its location arrows...I feel like 2 straight lines could have...
I'm in SC and I do it like this, and include this legend on framing plans.
I've seen different arrows mean different things on so many plans. Some with just your 'harpoon' and no 'extents' arrow, and I'll have no clue which way they're supposed to be going, so I get why contractors would get...
If there is a US version of this bulletin, I can't find it, so here you go, you may find this more helpful than the roof structure bulletin : https://www.weyerhaeuser.com/woodproducts/document-library/document_library_detail/tb-155/#download
I think the shear transfer you're looking at is the...
I think you could add blocking etc to be reasonably confident in the TJI's transferring load to the diaphragm, then you just have to make sure the load has somewhere to go from the diaphragm.
I'll insist that the wall be raised up flush with the t/joists, and the joists attached to a ledger. I...
