Gary Bottomley
11-21-2011, 08:32 AM
I thought the bearing condition at the transition of these roof trusses between the house and a single stall attached garage with the edge of the bearing wall roughly 2 1/2" from the dropped bottom chord of the garage ceiling was unusual and without support from below and, might have been different than the truss engineer had in mind. I therefore reported as follows:
"Roof truss drawings, should be obtained to verify that the connections at the intersection of the garage and house, were designed for the anticipated loads of the lower bottom chord of the truss over the garage, without vertical support at the interior house wall and the vertical member connections roughly 2" from the vertical support wall. Suggest verification from the Building Official or preferably the Structural Engineer that designed the truss."
Got a call a few weeks after the inspection from the Realtor, who represented the seller as well as the buyer on this 1 1/2 year old property in a resort complex. He felt I was way out of line in questioning this condition in the absence of any obvious drywall cracks etc. I also caused him a lot of extra work getting the local building inspector back involved who said it looked ok.
Is this something I should have just ignore?
At this point, I feel that I met my obligation with my client, the buyer, and if they want to accept the verbal ok from the building inspector through the Realtor than that should satisfy my responsibility.
Any thoughts?
"Roof truss drawings, should be obtained to verify that the connections at the intersection of the garage and house, were designed for the anticipated loads of the lower bottom chord of the truss over the garage, without vertical support at the interior house wall and the vertical member connections roughly 2" from the vertical support wall. Suggest verification from the Building Official or preferably the Structural Engineer that designed the truss."
Got a call a few weeks after the inspection from the Realtor, who represented the seller as well as the buyer on this 1 1/2 year old property in a resort complex. He felt I was way out of line in questioning this condition in the absence of any obvious drywall cracks etc. I also caused him a lot of extra work getting the local building inspector back involved who said it looked ok.
Is this something I should have just ignore?
At this point, I feel that I met my obligation with my client, the buyer, and if they want to accept the verbal ok from the building inspector through the Realtor than that should satisfy my responsibility.
Any thoughts?