Do you guys have a detail you can share how you frame deck column with natural stone veneer (6" thick including mortar) all the way to the top and above the deck? I never like this scenario and it is very hard to transition from concrete pier, to column to wood with stone around it. In the...
For example, shall I stop and start the framing before and after the rafter? Try to balloon frame it? Mix? Trying to figure out the best detail. Balloon framing, the studs get really long and may have to go with engineered wood.
Lets say you have 6:12 shed roof. In the middle this roof you have a fireplace. How do you typically frame this? The fireplace will have thin set stone veneer, but the chimney above will be about 7 ft tall and will have heavy stone veneer. The chimney framing and fireplace framing will be...
I do calc but I dont submit them. I have the calculation files but I dont create a calculation bundle with title block and table of content. The counties don't require the calcs. They just want stamped drawings.
Just follow the load. Look at the load from each joist. I would fasten each layer to another layer with nails with more capacity that that. Or just bolt them all together.
Update: We will add bond beam on the top of existing. It works out much better. The ceiling of the existing house was very low. So the plan was to "balloon" frame the wall down to below to raise the ceiling, and frame the second floor joists to a ledger. With the addition of the bond beam...
I am thinking it may be grouted just the portion in soil where it retains 3 ft of soil. I will use a tape measure and see where my tape wont go any further. I will investigate what is going on with the existing all thread. It may help resist tension too if it is embedded.
looking at the footing from far away in crawlspace ( cant get close, if I try.. i may get stuck), concrete footing around 16-18” wide. For sure I will grout the corners and add rebars. What I dont really know how this wall is connected to the footing. If I add full rebar and grout, rebar wont...
I have a project where the existing house is a one story house with CMU walls built in 1947. We are adding another story. We just found out that the CMUs are running bond but all hollow. I am still not 100% sure how the 2x8 plate on top of cmu is attached. There is a chance maybe the all...
Typically the grating manufacturer has a listed loading capacity and spans. Here is one example
https://assets.mcnichols.com/content/dam/mcnichols/resources/PDF/LT-SDW-GW-GW2-CS-GV.pdf
I just feel like the anchor capacity should at least match the nailing of the 3 bays 4ft o.c. blocking? OP made some good points about the oversize hole on the sill. I guess people really do rely on the static friction?
How about the connection of the plate to the concrete like what OP was saying specifically when the joists sit on top of the concrete wall (instead of hanging from it).
I am curious, what reaction do you typically use on the top of the wall? Do you do blocking in 1 joist space? What spacing? What nail pattern? I do use blocking for joists parallel to the wall @ 24" o.c. with 5 nails. It is just for extra bracing. 5 nails every 24" is not a lot of load...
I do not rely on the floor framing. I look at the geometry of the basement wall and make sure it has enough jogs so you have perpendicular wall. I look at how long the basement wall span from corner to corner and design the wall as Fixed at the bottom and pin pin on the side. The top is...
Wouldn't you have the same problem if lets say you keep breaking the boulder and part of the house footing sits on large boulder and other part sits on soil?
