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Old 11-03-2009, 02:21 PM   #21
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I agree.
I agree with that as well.
I still think what I do is importent.
We all have a load of sh*t of opinions.
Some more of a load then others.
you don't belong in this thread, you're too complacent
no wonder you're a building inspector and not a fireman or a cop.
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Old 11-03-2009, 02:55 PM   #22
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you don't belong in this thread, you're too complacent
no wonder you're a building inspector and not a fireman or a cop.

LOL.
Thanks I think
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LOL.
Thanks I think

what do you think? should we learn to build from the hindus or from the chinesez?
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what do you think? should we learn to build from the hindus or from the chinesez?


Both
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at that rate we might as well just import a few hundred million of them to do the actual hustling and bustling for us, as we sit back and debate on how grossly overweight we've become.
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Clem, it is pretty evident that you are lacking in knowledge of masonry construction, if not construction in general.
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Clem, it is pretty evident that you are lacking in knowledge of masonry construction, if not construction in general.
what are you talking about? i never said i was a mason or a gc.

my strong suite is that i'm willing to learn. go for it
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This room addition I framed a few years ago has 10 simpson strongwalls.
Just in the addition...

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This room addition I framed a few years ago has 10 simpson strongwalls.
Just in the addition...

yeah but you cali boys don't sheet your walls tsk.. tsk..
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yeah but you cali boys don't sheet your walls tsk.. tsk..
WRONG.....That particular addition has sheer on the entire thing....We sheer everything...We have these things called earthquakes here...
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WRONG.....That particular addition has sheer on the entire thing....We sheer everything...We have these things called earthquakes here...
dunno. everything i've seen built down there is stucco on lath over studs with 1/2 cdx boards on the corners.

we get rain here.. sometimes..
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dunno. everything i've seen built down there is stucco on lath over studs with 1/2 cdx boards on the corners.

we get rain here.. sometimes..
That's how they where built in the 50's and 60's.
Anymore things are way over engineered.
You should see some of the ridge beams that I see called out.
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WRONG.....That particular addition has sheer on the entire thing....We sheer everything...We have these things called earthquakes here...



Alot of sheer
Alot of straps
Alot of hold downs
Alot of Everything
More then most of the WORLD.
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Alot of sheer
Alot of straps
Alot of hold downs
Alot of Everything
More then most of the WORLD.
Yep
Yep
Yep
And yep.
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Yep
Yep
Yep
And yep.
and you still fall short of the bunker-building hindu masons.
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That's how they where built in the 50's and 60's.
Anymore things are way over engineered.
You should see some of the ridge beams that I see called out.

WAY OVER KILL.
To much sometimes is To MUCH.
I've seen alot of over kill by engineers. Park A on it.
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and you still fall short of the bunker-building hindu masons.
Says you....
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WAY OVER KILL.
To much sometimes is To MUCH.
I've seen alot of over kill by engineers. Park A on it.
i just did a 3,5ksf new house. 7 rolls of cs20, about 50 phd5's, a ton of threaded rod, and massive hourage for the lowest man on the scrotum pole. what gives?
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Says you....
says the United Masons' Front. You can put all the seismic gizmoz you want in your frame and it still don't close to a good ol' fashioned brick&block bunker.
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