To clarify: i am under contract to buy (not engineer!) the home. Sorry for being unclear about that. what I wrote was indeed confusing.
Smart! I'll look closely for top plate splices and see where/how they're reinforced.
Here I was entirely focused on compression, but great point about tension...
Hey all! I'm a mechanical/structural engineer from the aerospace world that's new to building structural and don't have a strong intuition yet. Perhaps you can help me!
I'm currently under contract for this new construction house and it caught my eye that the roof rafters aren't stacked/aligned...
