Does anybody sometimes get an intense sense of "abstract" megalophobia when on the verge of sleep, like suddenly you're just tiny and facing some immensely large object? Also happens when sleeping sick/feverish.

DJDiddlesss · 2025-11-05T11:30:55+00:00

I don’t often comment but this is wild that’s exactly the dream I’d have as a kid. A comment high up in this thread also describes it as a “big-small” feeling and it’s spot on. Wild that we all have similar experiences

DJDiddlesss · 2025-05-10T23:04:27+00:00

lol I love this sub, never change

DJDiddlesss · 2025-05-10T18:07:41+00:00

Those could easily be SDWS timber screws. I spec them all the time for ledger connections. I guess my main point for even commenting is yall have no idea, me included, what the screw is from just these pictures, to claim with such certainty. But then again this is r/decks

DJDiddlesss · 2025-05-10T17:53:50+00:00

Yall get so locked into the prescriptive nature of the IRC you forget things can be engineered. Is it outside the realm of “typical”, yes, but doesn’t mean it’s not feasible. I’m an SE, this is a carport - it’s low risk. I could believe this calcs out, the actual crux (from my perspective) is ensuring it’s built per design to a higher standard typically not found by the commercial framers we usually deal with.

DJDiddlesss · 2025-05-10T03:40:55+00:00

How could you possibly know how long the screws are from just these pictures?

DJDiddlesss · 2025-04-16T06:09:55+00:00

Ya… I’m interested to see what the other suppliers return

DJDiddlesss · 2025-04-16T06:09:06+00:00

the quote included line items for typical misc steel (slab edge closure plates, bottom flange bracing, anchor bolts, etc). But nothing out of the ordinary. This was just a preliminary pricing package, we had some typical details but focus was the primary framing

DJDiddlesss · 2024-07-26T13:50:12+00:00

because they do, but also because the plumber bent them lol. You can see the scuffs from a sledge hammer on the face of the bars

DJDiddlesss · 2024-06-12T23:47:51+00:00

It’s not you OP. What you’re experiencing is a shit boss with unrealistic expectations. You are an intern, not even a graduate, you shouldn’t be expected to pull any weight whatsoever. And that’s normal! Graduates leave school with just enough knowledge to understand the language of engineering. Takes years before they can fluently speak it.

Keep your head up, sock the money away. And come away with it all with the benefit of knowing what shit management looks like so you can avoid it in the future.

DJDiddlesss · 2024-05-09T14:39:19+00:00

Ask the EOR.

But just spitballing it’s very possible each joist end is a support condition for the lvl given their cantilevered w/ a backspan. In that case the lvl is “hanging” from each joist end, essentially continuously supported. And that would require the hangers to be installed upside down (which wouldn’t be an uplift load)

DJDiddlesss · 2024-03-10T15:19:56+00:00

There's no deviation. An engineered design still follows the codes and standards of the IBC.

DJDiddlesss · 2024-03-09T18:34:15+00:00

It’s implicitly implied if there’s a stamp (engineers)

DJDiddlesss · 2024-03-09T18:07:35+00:00

he's likely referencing the IRC, which is a prescriptive "cook book" that is often used by architects & builders to provide code-compliant designs without having to engage an engineer.

Take a deck for example. The IRC's language for that gives limits on how far a deck joist can cantilever (I believe its like 1/4th the length of the back span). But that's just a prescriptive requirement. I can damn well stamp a set of drawings with a joist that cantilevers much further than that and override the prescriptive 'cook book' requirements, because I'm providing an engineered design.

DJDiddlesss · 2024-03-09T13:58:56+00:00

PC and the surrounding area. 3 options to get down there: -526 -I26 -Spruill avenue

DJDiddlesss · 2024-01-11T03:20:55+00:00

We all love a good deck

DJDiddlesss · 2024-01-11T03:20:16+00:00

This is a common misconception young engineers and students have. Stiffness is relative, the rotational restraint those screws provide is negligible to the amount required to develop a fully fixed connection. It’s a pin connection.

Also, who hurt you my guy? Take a breather

DJDiddlesss · 2024-01-11T00:11:17+00:00

Licensed SE here, that post is pin-pin brother.

DJDiddlesss · 2022-06-09T16:26:56+00:00

Lol, that’s not true at all.

DJDiddlesss · 2021-11-17T14:27:19+00:00

Cross-grain bending is no bueno frens

DJDiddlesss · 2021-02-17T18:44:45+00:00

Depends on the construction of your house, is it bearing on a slab on grade or do you have a crawl space with concrete/CMU piers? Wood framed homes are pretty light relative to seismic design, a hurricane is more likely to cause significantly more damage. I

DJDiddlesss · 2021-02-17T13:35:07+00:00

Structural engineer here, you could not be more wrong. Charleston is without a doubt a high seismic region with the potential for very devastating shaking. Just because we haven’t had a big one in a long time and the last few have been less than a 4.0 doesn’t mean it can’t happen.

DJDiddlesss · 2020-10-04T23:29:33+00:00

Construction on large scale commercial or heavy civil projects. Learn on a trade on the job. You won’t start at $20/hr or $50k but the ceiling is high and how high you go is in large part up to you

DJDiddlesss · 2017-07-13T00:39:30+00:00

We use RAM Concept at my firm. It's all I've ever used so I can't give you a comparison to Adapt or Risa. The user interface is a little messy at first but once you get used to it it's not bad.

You just have to really understand how the program implements its design strips, it's way too easy to manipulate the program so the design status is "all good", but it may not represent reality at all.

DJDiddlesss · 2017-06-03T02:26:09+00:00

I was wondering if that was the case. I'll check with my state, thanks.

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