Home Page Login Rentals Add your Listing All The Articles
Properties For Sale Estaplace Contacts About Us House Exchange Real Estate Forum
ESTAPLACE.COM REAL ESTATE - FREE LISTING SERVICE - is an accommodation and real estate directory, where real estate property owners or real estate agencies connect with vacationers and home buyers worldwide. If you are a seller, you can add listings in few seconds, and if you are a buyer you can search listings to find your dream property!

Search by keywords or by a location.

You can also browse our web directory.

    back to the list and search form for newsgroup's messages


Nesgroup address: alt.building.construction - Date & Time for the message: 28 Oct 2005 09:22:06 -0700 /

Author of the message: "RicodJour"

Title of the message:
Re: cedar rafter span max

Text of the message:
Diane wrote:

> Had engineer say my 4x8 cedar rafters were ok for concrete tile over
> deck/porch/balcony last year, but there were span issues with the 18' 4x6
> barge rafters that extend over both the house & deck.  His suggestion of
> multiple LVLs was not appealing, so I had asked him on the phone whether
> adding bracket supports (4x12 beams) roughly at mid-point  would work.  He
> had said yes, but now I can't find my notes to that effect.   Construction
> is busy here & it took over a year to find someone to do needed work (moving
> barge rafters in 6", adding lookouts to the parts over the house & support
> bracket beams on 2 story = not a DIY project), but it's *finally* done and
> "feels" rock solid.
>
> Want to check again that 4x6 cedar (engineer assumed #3) would be ok for
> 9'6" span or will I need to sister with something...  Truss designs for



[ USA -> CHICAGO - 16/May/2025 19:24:55 ] We have 24806 properties listed. Yesterday traffic on Estaplace Real Estate was: 7090 unique visitors with 303745 page views. To view more statistics about Estaplace Real Estate, click here.

We accept, payments through bank wire, credit cards with PayPal for advanced services! PayPal Gateway Visa Card MasterCard American Express Diners Card Jcb Credit Card PostaPay Maestro Pago Bancomat Hosted by Frazionabile.it

Estaplace.com is a worldwide and international real estate directory, with thousands of real estate listings, divided into countries and regions. All material, the structure, and the layout on this site are © Copyright of Estaplace.com by Ceglia Giovanni located in Trento N. 74 Pal. I Street in Pagani(Salerno) - Italy. Italian Business Code: Partita IVA N. IT03972320653, registered in the "Camera di Commercio" of Salerno.

Estaplace.com is one the Ceglia Giovanni projects, started on 20 July 2005, and online since 20 August as a real estate platform for listings, mainly operating on the Italian and American/English market in the Internet, Estaplace would like to become the point of referiment for home sellers and home buyers, a site where private owners or real estate agencies can have the possibility to show their offers to the world. Estaplace.com is only one of the Giovanni Ceglia's sites. Everyday Giovanni Ceglia works to improve new Internet tools and services for online marketing and business. Estaplace.com will become the biggest portal for real estate business and investments online.