The changes in building code are interesting to me. 30+ years ago,
when I put up roof trusses, I used the 1 or 3/4 steel strapping
that came with the lumber to cut into 18 strips that I used to tie
each end of the truss down to the wall. It is interesting to me in
that the code became
It's interesting that the main change was in strapping and things as
simple as nailing schedules and decking clips.
There are also issues with end gables and their construction as well,
but I don't recall the exact details.
The changes are ongoing, and have been modified almost constantly
since
Dan Penoff wrote:
The one thing I always thought was peculiar was all of the attention
to the roof decking and trusses, yet they continue to use aluminum
framed single glazed windows. When we built our last house down here
we wanted double pane windows for noise and energy efficiency, and the
There are different kinds of windows. I put in Anderson windows in my
addition that are sorta intermediate storm types -- they have tabs on
the frames to hold the sashes in but are not impact resistant for
hurricanes, etc. Those windows are really expensive but the higher end
houses over on
It was a spec house, not a custom builder. Not a lot you can do in that
situation.
We made them crazy, so much so that they banned us from the job site near the
end. Every day we walked through the house and wrote up any deficiencies. They
had these little carbon less forms for this stuff, and
Here they use concrete block construction for nearly all residential
construction. There is rebar that is tied to the footers, which is then tied to
rebar laid in a gutter across the top of the walls, which is then grouted after
the roof straps are tied to the rebar in the gutters.
This makes
Any builder I ever hired was working for ME.
Wilton
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From: Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Hurricane update from Northern NJ
Dan Penoff wrote:
The one
WILTON wrote:
Any builder I ever hired was working for ME.
Yep. Even if it's a speculative house that was under construction when I bought
it, if the windows weren't already on the job site they'd order them to my spec
(in the sizes they'd already framed for so no extra work for them) and
Sounds grim. The photo of the NJ roller coaster (formerly on dry
land) that's now resting offshore in the lapping ocean is a vivid
display of the power of this storm. My friend's brother in Stamford,
CT has his home under water. In my lifetime I have never seen
anything this devastating and
On 01/11/2012 2:55 PM, andrew strasfogel wrote:
Sounds grim. The photo of the NJ roller coaster (formerly on dry
land) that's now resting offshore in the lapping ocean is a vivid
display of the power of this storm. My friend's brother in Stamford,
CT has his home under water. In my lifetime
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:12:21 -0400 Jaime Kopchinski jaime...@gmail.com
wrote:
Its quite sad here.
Thank you for your report. Our prayers are with you.
Craig
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We got between 5 and 6 inches of rain betwewen Sunday at 6 pm and
Tuesday morining, accompanied by wind gusts to 60 mph. The entire DC
metropolitan area was basically shut down for 2 days (Monday and
Tuesday) but mercifully there was little wind damage in our
neighborhood. This may be as a
We are fortunate to live in a newer area, in which all of the hurricane codes
resulting from Andrew were in place. As a result, when the three hurricanes
passed through in the early 2000s, the interruption, if any, was minimal. It's
amazing how little the changes were in residential
Its quite sad here.
Thank you for your report. Our prayers are with you.
Ditto.
Rick
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