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The mezzanine is supported from bottom, NOT the truss. The truss in question runs through the loft area above the mezzanine. The only 2 lateral braces or bottom chords I am thinking of removing are on side of this one truss. The ceiling of the mezzanine and floor of the loft (joist) are attached...

Guys, I have a 40x60 stick building with 18’ eaves, T11 siding and a metal room. Each truss is constructed of what looks like 2 standard trusses connected by 2x6s making them double basically. I have built a 20x40 mezzanine on one end. Currently framing it out for a apartment with a loft area...

I just installed a couple of Mr Heater LP high intensity overhead shop heaters. They came with mechanical thermostats but I want to use a wifi 24 volt thermostat. The heater manual state that “ ELECTRICAL NeVeR CoNNeCT PoWeRPILe GAS VALVe oR THeRMoSTAT To LINe VoLTAGe oR A TRANSFoRMeR”. I found...

Naturalgas, that is what I am confused about. Here is what the manual states, “ELECTRICAL NeVeR CoNNeCT PoWeRPILe GAS VALVe oR THeRMoSTAT To LINe VoLTAGe oR A TRANSFoRMeR”. I just found a relay that I can put between my 24 volt thermostat that will supply a millivolt signal to the powerpile...

Yeldogt, I probably should have gone with a gas tankless originally but either way I would still be at the impass I am at now. The holding temp in the shop will get turned down from 65 degrees to 50 degrees. Then if all goes well I can use a wifi programmable thermostat to turn the new heaters...

Naturalgas, I purchased a Honeywell that runs off 24 volts which I bought a transformer for. Is 24 volts considered millivolts?

I just installed 2ea. 40,000 BTU Mr Heater LP heaters in my shop. They came with mechanical thermostats and I am wanting to run them with digital ones instead. I have a radiant water system in the floor that runs off a electric tankless water heater. Keeping the shop at 65 degrees really jacks...

I had a engineer runs some calculations for me but it looks like he went a bit overboard. Ive gone back to him a few times but the responses do not help me much. He Has listed 8x12 sawn lumber for my beams and then 2x12 equivalent I joist topped by 1" 1/4" t&g plywood. I'm thinking of using 4 ea...

At the moment it will only hold a gym with a bathroom and basic storage, nothing to awfully heavy. Later I do intend on making some sort of living quarters for my kid/s when they get older and hopefully go to college.

Here is a layout of what I was thinking. I could either build the beam in multiple sections and have them met half way overtop the 6x6 beams or just make the beam continuous and set atop the 6x6 beams. Note The number of joist shown in the drawing is just to represent the direction of them...

I have a 40x60 shop on which one end I want to put a mezzanine up in. I would like the underneth to be as open as possible. That being said, I am setting this up on one end of the shop so the wall will be one side of mezzanine. Post on the wall side have a 8x8 on each corner and 2 ea. 8x8 14'...