A modular home was installed on an existing concrete foundation wall and there are 12 steel columns installed down the center of the home. The columns are sitting on the existing concrete slab. There is a column with a 17,919 pound load on it. The code official called me and asked if the...
Yes cold weather. The area below the elevated slab will be in the basement and enclosed. There will be a door going into the actual basement. Basically you have a rectangular foundation with a U-shaped bumped out on the front which the elevated slab will sit on top of.
A client is installing a foundation for a house that will have a concrete slab for a front porch. The porch extends out 6' from the house and is 22' wide.
He would like to have the area under the porch slab to be part of the full basement. In order to do this he will need to install an...
JAE,
So a 12" diameter pier should be spaced 36" max?
So is their actually just air between the bottom of the slab and the ground (except for where the slab is resting on the beams)?
Do you need to install galvanized decking under the slab like you do on an elevated slab or can the slab...
Yes, it is for a house. You are right, it is not a crack, it is where one truck was empty and they had to wait for another truck. Sorry, I described it bad in my original post.
See the attached picture. This was just poured a couple days ago. Is this structurally ok? The contractor just wants to parge it.http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=7e7763a2-f215-4c81-bc76-a495fa344b85&file=IMG_3703.jpg
I have a client who wants to install a 6" slab on top of piers instead of a typical frost wall.
The piers would extend 4' below grade. The house is a double wide and is 26'8" x 44'.
How are apart should the piers be spaced and what diameter should they be?
Should the piers extend above...
A potential client asked me if I could draw up some plans for his pole barn.
This is how he would like to construct it:
20' tall p.t. 6x6 columns spaced 8' apart with 4' in ground
2x4 strapping at 24" o.c. for walls and roof.
1" vertical pine board siding on walls
Metal roof
A 2x12 at the top...
I was contacted today by a guy who got his hands on some old utility poles that a town recently removed. He wants to install them as beams to support floor joists for a house. He wants to use some of them as piers (bury them 6' deep in the ground) and then run other utility poles on top for...
They want to keep that area open to above.
What about installing some columns from floor to roof on the inside of the wall? They could wrap it with sheetrock and have a boxed in column.
What about installing a beam on the underside of the trusses from wall to wall? One in the center and one...
I was asked about the best way to brace a gable end wall with a lot of windows. It is 2x6 construction with pre-engineered trusses with a vaulted ceiling. Attached is a picture from the outside and I will post of a couple from the inside. Would installing a plywood ceiling on the vaulted...
