A Shop for Dan #4: Engineering a wall
Any wall within 5 feet of a property line needs to be 1 hour rated. With a living roof, each end of the rafter will be supporting a thousand lbs. Furthermore, I live in earthquake country. Building a wall isn’t a trivial matter of slapping up some 2×4s and calling it done. I’ve looked around for information on AAC and SIPs and those foam concrete forms, and even asked some people about information on them, and it sure seems like we’re coming back to stick-built for price and ease of construction. My notes are missing the URLs of a bunch of the wall assembly notes that I’ve found from various sources, so I’m going to have to go back and find those, ...
