Typically end nailing into the header. If that doesn't cut it, then framing angles above and/or below the header into the built up jamb and kings that are all nailed together.
And I started to post it here, too, but when I went to grab some screenshots to show how it's done, the zoom buttons were gone. They're probably seeing decreased revenue from people being able to view it online whenever they want to. Having a PDF is the only way to be able to zoom with good...
"When conducting construction observation services, an engineer should clearly identify what they are documenting and why in taking photographs. If the photographs are not related to the engineer’s scope of work, then the engineer should consider whether to even take said photographs. Further...
Yeah, I don't think the MiTek and other similar softwares are capable of breaking it out. And you're not working with an engineer - it's a designer who may be very knowledgeable (@RontheRedneck ) or may have no clue what load combinations are. The engineer is just rubber stamping the output...
@milkshakelake has some insight on this, I believe.
I work with a couple of architects and conservation groups that do this. I don't have my own set up, but I take advantage of it when they do it. Really quite handy.
I don't see what @KootK was doing here as "plan stamping" in the typically negative connotation. The specifics of this arrangement would violate regulations where I practice, but in a broader ethical sense I would trust KootK to take the steps necessary to fully understand the problem, verify...
Those 4x4 things, or key blocks as you rightly referred to them, are used when the ledger is perpendicular to the trusses. They're usually built up out of a pair of 2x4s or cut from a 4x4 to provide supports where your truss spacing and doesn't match the fastener spacing for the ledger. here's...
No. Who knows better than design engineer what the design intent was? None of us create perfect drawings, and seeing something in the field that you know isn't what you meant for it to be is more reliable than a third party interpreting your imperfect drawings and comparing that to the...
For what it's worth, I asked about the analysis because I'm very suspicious of this post. New member, classified as a student, talking about repairing a roof truss. Pretty sure this is a contractor looking for free engineering advice. I could be wrong and welcome proof to the contrary. But...
For sure. Which is why I don't do weld inspections. That's for the testing lab's tech. But I do go behind them and make sure that the welds they inspected are in the right spot, the members are arranged correctly, etc.
I'm not a demo expert, but I'd guess there are entire books written on this subject. A lot more than can be discussed in a forum/thread format like this. I'd suggest posting any specific questions you have on the Student Forum.
I don't do the tests. I'd love to have a testing lab, but that's just not practical. I do a lot of historic restoration design, so I would like to set up a small testing lab for historic materials - masonry, brick, wood - and get the field tools to do more robust assessments of existing...
I think we have very different ideas of pomp and circumstance. Only difference is whether or not I put the inspection requirement in a schedule during design and whether or not I send the report to the building official after substantial completion of the structural elements of the building...
If anyone hasn't seen this, it's worth wasting some time reading through the comments. I think it started as an architectural student roasting the devolution of architectural design and the rise of the "McMansion."
McMansion Hell
It's a strip of sheet steel with holes. Nothing especially proprietary about them. If you start looking at the dimpled ones, maybe, but the regular straps are simple enough that you can use them for pretty much whatever you want so long as you can justify the behavior of the connection. Beam...
You mean the EOR takes a special trip out to the site to inspect it?
That's my point. That exception, as you quoted, says "as approved by the building official." Should that approval be given positively or passively? In other words, should they have to say "this counts as minor, no special...
