Thanks thats what I was hoping. I gave the wind loads a lot of thought, but until building the wall didn’t think of the eccentric load.. Thankfully as you say the lever arm is next to nothing.
Eccentric loading on a timber wall
I am presently working on my own home conversion/extension and framing a timber gable wall which will have an exterior covering of vertically hung tiles.
Last week I started wondering (panic) if I had monumentally underestimated the impact of the...
