RS Laser Kits - redneck garage

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Re: RS Laser Kits - redneck garage

Postby Mr Fixit » Mar 3rd, '15, 18:09
As a fully qualified and experienced Carpenter of 30 years experience I can easily tell you why Mr Redneck's garage is falling over.
No bloody bracing for the stud walls. Given that the roof is modern enough to have engineered timber trusses and a concrete slab floor, somebody skimped on the wall braces before putting the weather boards on. Not to mention the Building Inspector didnt pick up the missing braces during the Frame Inspection. Where there is not the room to run bracing from top to bottom plate continuously then either panel bracing should be used or a herring bone arrangement of which ever type of bracing is used and run at 45* in a large as possible X pattern.
Old school carpenters would use a bracing of 75 x 25 mm rough sawn timber checked into the stud wall in a large X fashion one or more times on every wall.
Current carpenters would use either Speed brace a 25 x 25 x 2 mm gal. steel with pre-perforated nail holes fixed with engineered Teco nails, just shallow checked into the studs and wrapped over and under the top and bottom wall plates. Or they would use galvanised strapping again shallow checked into the studs and in the shape of a large X again fixed with Teco engineered nails. A Teco nail is an engineered nail like a flat head nail but with a reinforced throat under the head. An ordinary flathead nail will shear off under dynamic loads, hence the use of Teco nails.
Or they would use structural grade ply or Masonite bracing sheets fixed to the stud walls with flat head nails.
The galvanised strapping is also used to brace the roof plane going from top plate over numerous rafters a a 45* angle to the ridge beam again in a large X.
There should also be bracing timbers used inside the trusses to stop them from racking in the line to and from the garage doors.
I am making an educated guess that the garage racked over in the direction of the prevailing strong or storm winds.

Mark
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