In terms of construction tolerances, how much misalignment do you generally find to be acceptable between the outer face of the rim board and the outer edge of the sill plate?
I have a house under construction, and the outer face of the 1.5" x 14" LSL rim board isn't flush with the outer...
I have a braced wall line in a single family home that spans from interior to exterior. I'm using a 3.5" x 14" LSL beam under the interior portion of the braced wall (spanning points 2-3-4 in the diagram below). This beam runs parallel to the floor joists. I'm considering extending this beam...
I have a couple of questions about truss blocks (aka drag blocks or shear blocks). This is my first time doing them, and they are uncommon in my area. The blocks will go between roof trusses above the exterior wall of a single-family home, adjacent to a porch overhang.
1) Is it advisable to...
Are there any required (or recommended) connections between interior braced wall panels and roof framing? This is for a single story, detached, one-family home in Seismic Design Category B.
R601.10.8 says braced wall panels shall be connected to floor framing or foundations. I assume this...
Can a suspended structural concrete slab be too thick?
I am doing a preliminary "design" of structural cast-in-place concrete porch slabs on my new home, before I find a local structural engineer to do the real design.
The two-way slabs might be 12" thick, and the one-way slabs might be 8"...
Are the cracks in the grout under this baseplate a concern?
It's a 10" x 10" x 1/2" steel baseplate. The column has a design load of 10 kips. This is residential construction.
I don't know what type of grout was used.
I have a 10" thick concrete basement wall holding back 10 feet of round rock backfill, with an estimated top-of-wall reaction of 750 plf. This is new residential construction.
Through a miscommunication, the builder omitted the 3" x 4" brick ledge when pouring some sections of the wall.
I'm...
