She had Insurance send engineers, had private engineers, and foundations and soil engineers all inspect. I asked about what was looked at and done (This area is known for its very expansive clay which wreaks havoc unless post stressed concrete slabs are used for slab foundations). There were tears in the drywall ceilings in the front and back bedrooms, they looked like someone tore a sheet of paper. The firewall in the living room between this and the next townhome looked like ladder steps with 1/2 inch gaps floor to ceiling. I was called in because there was extensive drywall damage. One br suite in front, one in back, atrium behind the front one, living room large and vaulted with spiral stair to the loft from the living/dinging room intersection to above the kitchen. A ridge beam and purlin beams spanned the width of the townhome.

Loft above the kitchen in a townhome, loft spanned the kitchen and dining room and overlooked the living room. By the way ' I'm a Builder and I have a customer who needs a shoe molding installed, how do you take that off and how much should I charge?' 😏Ĭlick to expand.Sounds like u need to charge toofiddy. Have a good and safe weekend to all 'hacks' of the trade! With that said, if you look at the treads and questions which are being asked you can tell right off the bat they're far from being in the trade, and they get shut down by our 'distinguished security forces' and they're doing a good job because 90% of the time they're right.Was gonna say 100% but I don't what that go to their head 🤣 But that's what this place is about, continued education and teaching someone we're teaching ourselves at the same time, it keeps us up on our game.

I have been at it for almost 40 years in the trade and I still learn new things here, and some of the guys here can make me look like an amateur when it comes to certain things when it comes to the old tricks that they use in their trade. So we did our share of leg work to the point that now we're able to find architect's mistakes or show them that a smaller beam can work in comparison to the oversized beam they came up with because 'just to be safe' and show them on paper by doing all the calculations. I remember going to my architect and asking him how he came up with this, he would explain to me in words and I would say show me on paper and take the paper with me and practice on different scenarios. Yes you're right we learned the hard way there wasn't much to turn to 30+ years ago, we used Architects to advise us when it came to structural issues, and that is where real education came from how to calculate loads, how the load is being transferred through the building, sizing floorings and beams to carry this loads, etc. So when you see someone cannot even fill out their profile the right way and list their trade which in one way or another shows a lack of respect for the rules of the CT community and on top of that they asking stupid questions that most kids would know who took woodworking shop in school at one point or another. Tony, some of the questions you see it's pretty obvious that people are not in the trade, not to mention it seems there is a new trend here, nobody is listing their trade anymore in the profile, at least you have a GC attached to your name. How does that prevent the rafters from pushing the walls outward? What am I missing? How does reinforcing the ridge board help in holding up the support walls where the rafters are sitting. This is where things don't make sense to me. The engineer, however, is recommending that we just replace the ridge board with an LVL beam and that that will be sufficient to hold up the roof once the joists are removed. My understanding is that the ceiling joists are currently also acting as rafter ties, and by that logic, removing the joists would weaken the structure and potentially push the support walls outward (does that make sense?) It's an older home so the lumber is all full-dimension lumber. It's a 12'x14' addition that has a gable roof with 2圆 rafters. One of our clients is looking to create a vaulted ceiling in one portion of her house by removing the existing ceiling joists/rafter ties. I'm trying to wrap my head around something that's been proposed by a structural engineer.

Tie joists to roof rafters