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you must have missed the history of our country. You should go read up about how farming processed over the century!The time for worrying was half a century ago. We are locked in as the bill is coming due.
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you must have missed the history of our country. You should go read up about how farming processed over the century!The time for worrying was half a century ago. We are locked in as the bill is coming due.
They re not...we should be seriuosly worried about the left around the world building over farmland and limiting cattle ranches...
the left is lying to you...they see climate paranoia as a way to make you obey them
Have you been watching the recent storm damage to houses?Then maybe you shouldn't be arguing with carpenters on how homes are built ... just saying ...
Have you been watching the recent storm damage to houses?
I have no argument with carpenters. They are just following the building plans.
Your home was decades ahead of its time.I've spent the last 40 years of my life repairing storm damage ... intermixed with repairing damage caused by homeowners who think they're smarter than all engineers and construction folk from the past 100 years ...
That's right ... I'm living in a house built in 1895 ... and she's built EXACTLY the same as most any home today ... Western Platform Light Wood Framing ... the materials have changed some, but the structural engineering is the same ... the only major difference over my career is today we nail the roof to the walls ... we learned some valuable lessons from Hurricane Andrew (1992) ...
Roofs are DAMN heavy ... set it on the walls and it won't move ... are you nuts ... it would take a Category 4 wind load to blow the roof off ... and who's STUPID enough to build where there's Category 4 wind loads ... as stupid as building wherr it snows ... mutter mutter bitch bitch ...
You think that's an accurate analogy?It wasn't 'economical' to insulate attics beyond R-30. Now the standard is R-50 or higher.
That is a fact. 120 mph roofs come off. 130 mph walls start to fail.it would take a Category 4 wind load to blow the roof off
That is a fact. 120 mph roofs come off. 130 mph walls start to fail.
The math is simple. That's why no one builds houses to withstand extreme weather like tornadoes or hurricanes.I don't know how you'd use the math, but like the old saying, "Plenty is enough".
Those are the numbers for roofs with storm bracing.
That's tornado level. I drove through Moore Oklahoma after the F5 in 1999.At 166 mph ... some well-built homes are swept off their foundation ...
Well, there is a lot of money to be made from storm and other damage to homes. My late brother made a good living at it.The math is simple. That's why no one builds houses to withstand extreme weather like tornadoes or hurricanes.
Your home was decades ahead of its time.
"Balloon framing using a technique suspending floors from the walls was common until the late 1940s, but since that time, platform framing has become the predominant form of house construction."
Framing (construction) - Wikipedia
That's tornado level. I drove through Moore Oklahoma after the F5 in 1999.
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1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado - Wikipedia
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Other sources have flatform framing beginning in the 1930's. If your 1895 house had flatform framing it was decades ahead of its time.Good ... you see your thinking is 100 year outdated ... thanks for making my point clear ...
Sure...
Do you know why we double plate? ...