Recent content by maxxeddiy

I am thinking the 4ply truss may extend the width of the house. The front office and garage stick out. You can see from the aerial how it fits in line with the main portion of the structure:

The racks came with (for lack of the official name) giant screws with bolt heads on them. Looked to be about 1/4" by 3".

That was my main concern,... this area: I thought about a "sistering" the bottom chord,... or running 2x4s in the opposite direction to distribute the load across a 3 2x4 chords. Another option was to swing the back storage racks around so that they are mostly against the wall. I thought I...

They are stickers I couldn't make them out from the original crawl space. I will have to get closer and check them out. I called the builder first and they said that due to Hurricane building code changes their "official word" is that the ceiling is to hold the drywall in place. The rep was...

Humm,.. I am probably just referring to it correctly. I work in IT so this is all new to me. I can engineer you a complex Visualization Strategy for your backend computer systems,.. but structural engineering is not my deal :) The heavy bottom chord (4ply) in the middle measures 6"x6". The...

So I installed 4 x 8 storage racking in the ceiling of my garage (19"x20"). I put two above the garage door and two more in front of them to create a T. I think I have the terminology right feel free to correct. You will see below how the garage is layed out with the storage from overhead. I...