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This sort of thing is why building codes matter.
Not if Clarence Thomas has anything to say about it.
He's gotta build his log cabin on the cheap
I pay rent for the convenience of pouring oil down the drains and flushing tampons.
The strength of the timber is probably fine. Those thin brackets and putting 2 screws in one hole is a different story....
That timber is probably not fine, as it cures it shrinks, warps, and and splits. Dimensional lumber is cured, and it still warps and splits.
Agreed on the brackets though.
Also, there's a strong possibility of bugs in non kiln dried wood.
Great job infesting your property with borer beetles because you couldn't spend $10 on a proper board.
Not all dimensional lumber is completely dry, which is why it warps and potentially splits. There are three ratings: GRN for having an excess of 19% moisture at the time of surfacing, KILN or KD for no more than 19%, and MC15/KD15 which has no more than 15%.
This is not necessarily common knowledge either.
Anecdotally, I have bought soaking wet wood from Home Depot before. It sucked because by the time it was dry enough to use, every single board was as crooked as a politician looking to get reelected.
Yep, true. Lumber after COVID due to the ravenous home construction industry was substantively wetter. But it was more trustworthy than a piece of timber.
Hey, it's his problem when that shit fails. Good that you have pictures.
It's their problem if they get hurt when it happens.
Very, very unlikely, with how these things fail. There's a reason why joists and studs have the spacing they do. Also, when a joist like this fails, it doesn't fail completely with the floor suddenly dopping out, it'll crack, hang, the rest of the system will take the load, as designed.
Source: I've built and maintained a few houses, reconstructed these kinds of failures. Even in really old homes (early 20th century) with dried out lumber, a single joist completely failing (say, rotted out) only causes a low spot. The subfloor will sag, but not fail, as it's securely attached in multiple places to each joist (which is why a failed joist just hangs).
I can't even imagine a way for more than a sag to happen.
I don't know what they mean, that looks solid to me, that baby ain't going anywhere
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2024
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