Originally Posted by
Victor DaGraca
Of course, the official reason being given is the 40Lb PSF load design and the 70+ people on the deck at the time.
That looked like about a 10' x 20' section.
That's 200 sf x 40 pounds load per sf, or 8,000 pounds load divided by 70 people equals 114 pounds per person average.
Let's same an average between men and women is 140 pounds, that would put the load at 9,800 pounds.
You mean the 40 pounds per sf was not the safe building capacity, but the failure point capacity?
No safety factor built into that code?
The local official probably know the owners, and, it they said there were structural problems, the attorneys would be on them like flies on $hit, which, of course, they will be anyway. The attorneys will simply start by pointing out what I did, and it will go downhill from there, with the homeowners in$urance footing the bill to the maximum coverage limit.
When you rent a house like that out to parties like that, you need to make sure your in$urance coverage has a high limit, least you have to dip into your wallet and your future income.