ok, so in short - you are good with the way this is installed? assuming they met the fastening criteria, hanger spec, and member sizes? i'm curious if the odd pointy bearing condition that the rafter is in has anyone concerned? as opposed to the detail i mentioned just above this.
We have a consensus. I will detail this. Now, more so to my curiosity, i would think that i would hold the beam back slightly (left in the photo) so that i can create a "bearing condition" for the rafter on the hanger. I think someone else commented on how this would require a notch in the CJ...
i appreciate you being the bigger man here...i too need to take your advice. I see you post on here all the time (makes me question how you get any work done), so i should know your intentions by now. part of my anger is residual from the builder essentially telling me he isn't going to build...
Wait, maybe I’m in the wrong. Does everyone on here detail every single condition in a house, no matter how common or simple? This is an extremely common and simple condition. I call out “lap rr with cj and fasten with xx”. I would never think I would need to show someone how to lap a rr with a...
Ok cool. This is about all I was looking for haha. I appreciate the lack of condescending remarks. I may not have 40+ years of experience but I’m not going to lose my lively hood to save any builder’s ego
maybe you’re not in residential design. Or maybe you don’t deal with inspections ever. No problem, my short stint in commercial engineering had the same outlook.
The residential building code leaves a lot to the imagination. There are a plethora of things that don’t work but the code deems is...
Yes, we specialize is high end custom homes (the real kind $20MM+, not the high end custom homes that everyone and their brother claim to build), so dealing with this low budget builder was not ideal but trying to meet their needs within their budget.
We do check weak axis for these scenarios...
Oh my goodness. Duh! I’m embarrassed I didn’t think of that. It was a late night with lots of errors to review clearly.
Thank you for your reply. As far as method for hanging these members, does this funky angled scab seem ok? I really thought in a case like this they would shift the lvl back...
I have been in residential structural engineering for about 8 years. I know there are some things that are a “big deal” and other things that can SOMETIMES be approved simply because of redundancy and oversimplification of the system.
Tied roof concepts tend to be a good topic with varying...
JAE - that's exactly my view of the situation. I am viewing what I did as a "technical staff" job. I took the time to drive out to site, took pictures and documented the conditions that i was instructed to document and brought back to my boss for him to look at and guide me through the document...
AZPete - i have called multiple times trying to get any information and they just simply say that they have received my required response letter and no further information will be provided to me until a decision has been made. So i have no idea how far along they are in the process or if they...
I will update everyone once I receive an outcome. It has been a month so far. No decision has been made by the board yet. Thanks for all your responses. Please use this as a reminder to explain this dilemma to the new engineers you come across.
This is all helpful information. From now on I am going to take the advice given here and add (PA) to my signature and business card and make sure my name is not on anything in other states (to avoid any issues). Now i'm just venting, but i'm upset because I told my boss that my name should not...
Help me understand this. If someone goes up to John Doe and asks him to look at their foundation and write a report with what john sees when he does the observation - does he need to be an engineer? does he need to seal the report? if he's not an engineer, is he not allowed to write a document...
phamENG - That's what I was afraid of. At this firm, almost zero of the reports going out ever had a signature and seal. Wasn't my decision, I was just a worker bee. I was also not the one directing the project or making the key decisions. Interestingly enough, I actually advocated multiple...
In Short: I wrote a site observation report for a site in a state that i'm not licensed in (but my boss is), my boss approved the report, we sent it out to the builder, and the homeowner submitted a complaint that i was practicing engineering without a license. my boss's name and my name are...
PhamENG - interesting! I’m in residential in the northeast and that’s the way I’ve seen it set millions of times (I know that doesn’t mean it’s right - but that’s where my assumption came from). Maybe that method is only okay for standard sill plate settings (not a moment frame or steel column...
This is poor workmanship. Agree with phamENG, the anchors are worthless. neat trick to get the placement correct by putting them through a piece of wood. This looks like they just forgot to set the anchor bolts, as opposed to this being their standard method of setting them. This is a no brainer...
