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Building Code Check
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" Well we're gonna get started with Tony Stein our framing inspector and Tony I believe you like to start. Your frame inspection on the second floor right that is correct why wouldn't be. We mainly -- common man view the the span of the ceiling doors. To ensure they're adequate for limited storage space so you have to go to each room check out the dimensions -- this is a fourteen foot bedroom what kind of assuming -- you're looking for here. Two by 816 -- answer is upstairs OK and if you were a little bit bigger -- you have to go to a larger size lumber. That is correct we have the spans in the take the tables and and it exceeds those spans then he would have thought that through Cuba team. Or double up each individual or sister emperor had this happen -- not at all."
" Yes let's look at the roof in this section over here city can tell us what you'd be looking court here. Mainly what we have here is we have a roof ceiling -- it's a cathedral ceiling vacuuming. Correct yes that they were the only in the code book it would be columns with that's. That's the buzz word got out terminology so what he has here is engineered ridge beam which alleviates the outward pressure. On the texture walls. These are collar ties that come across and connect to rafters each side. And he has a large enough rafter to allow for. -- minimum. In that rafter space with. Generally what we look forward -- one inch air space between route back in the top of the installation. To carry ventilation from the soffit that. -- the ridge there yet and the rich poll that big piece of engineered wood though that's one of the key things -- good a structure can good all right so we passed there."
" What about actually tying down that roof here we are in the land of hurricanes and we've gone to a lot of trouble with clips everywhere. Are there other things that you look for. When you're in a historical setting as we are here they are bumping the roof line. And -- We would call -- a plate extension on top of the wall plates right is that the actual often it is this but we've got an extension up to. Here in the roof rafters all sit on top of the extension the reason this is done is so that we get extra height above the windows for a cornice line to Iran Iraq. So what you looking for there one of the main details here is. Things that we often times we have a break with the orient strand board here and often. No wall sheathing here -- If they fail the apply that all the way to the top what we would need to do you can see the top plates with straps to be the studs four or own sense because the sheeting this. In the building whether its OSB or plywood. Is what helps to tie that roof down that is correct and if it hasn't been applied all the way to the top -- it's not -- home room that's correct all right so these are some of the key things here. What about as we go to. Down the stairs and go towards the the first floor this corner right here it's carrying some of the load of the roof system down. Through here all the way down. To basically the footings of the foundation record generally you have an isolated pier or you what -- my -- is a larger being. From pier -- OK and here obviously throughout the house we've got engineered wood products glue laminated beams. LVLs and all of that tape here's another question what about when you've got a masonry mass like this. The masonry. Should be Independent of the frame which he has here. As if it -- to repair straighten. That is in case you have a settling in the footing. It does not cool offering worth blunt terms Gracie -- there's no longer standing but the decision is still there that's an important consideration well let's take a look at the underside of the house."
" And at this point we're verifying that the girder is carrying a load and not the jury and it transfers to these isolated piers. Down to the footing the bill."
" Throughout when he called it a crawl space all right so what about on the outside the house Tony we've got porches and big -- that like this what do you look for. What we're looking for is of course the rafter connection to the house carrying down to the beings and later on we'll come back. To verify that the straps are tied to the -- Down to the band board and carried cute here yet there's still a couple of places where they have to tie it down Iraq."
