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Thread: Clarification needed
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06-05-2007, 02:18 PM #1
Clarification needed
Last edited by dan orourke; 01-02-2008 at 09:05 AM.
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06-05-2007, 02:21 PM #2
Re: Clarification needed
Wind bracing is most likely the bracing installed to brace the gable ends (usually a 2X4 at 45° from the top of the gable to the bottom chord of a truss or ceiling joist).
"Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand." Leo Durocher
Bruce Breedlove
www.avaloninspection.com
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06-05-2007, 03:44 PM #3
Re: Clarification needed
OK, I'll go. What is a J truss? I haven't heard that term before.
Jim Robinson
New Mexico, USA
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06-05-2007, 07:15 PM #4
Re: Clarification needed
Closest I can think of is squash blocks for I-joists.
J-trusses - never heard of that term.
Eric Barker, ACI
Lake Barrington, IL
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06-05-2007, 08:25 PM #5
Re: Clarification needed
I'm assuming that "j-trusses" are jack trusses, as in those used in hips.
Typically you will have hip step down trusses (or hip trusses, depending on the truss designer, I usually see hip step down trusses), and hip jack trusses, these attach to the last step down truss (or to the hip trusses) and extend out to the wall.
Wind bracing would be diagonal bracing.
Have no idea what "pressure blocking" is.
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06-06-2007, 03:06 PM #6
Re: Clarification needed
Good. I don't feel so dumb. When I hear "pressure blocking" I think of squash blocks along the TJI man. wood joists. It doesn't sound right in this application, though.
Jim Robinson
New Mexico, USA
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