Originally Posted by
Thom Walker
You may be able to save face with your Client (forgive me if I am presuming anything here) by saying something along the lines of "I have misspoken. The AHJ has approved the rough framing and the final framing. I should have said, for additional protection against windlift and separation, you may benefit from installing collar ties in the upper one third of the rafter pairs."
You are saying that AHJ never miss things and/or make bad calls or use poor judgment?
I would stick to my guns and say that good building and engineering practice dictates the use of collar ties, as evidenced by their inclusion in the newer building code, such as (blah, blah, blah). Some builders and AHJ are slow to catch on to improvements in building codes, this is readily evident by the fact that Texas still uses the 2000 International Codes while the International Codes have gone through the 2003 changes, the 2006 changes, and are undergoing changes for 2009 - yet here we are, Texans, stuck with a code which now is nearly a decade old in the making.