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You have to just let go my friend, the name is " Los Angles Chargers now. I know it's painful but you always have the Padres and great weather..

You can also just dig out the underfloor (crawl space) an extra 8" deeper and extend the footings down also or just build it as it is using 2x6 T&G with girders, make sure to check the span of the 2x6 flooring in your area.

I guess the best thing would be to submit a plan for plan check, only then will they give you the time to go over all the things you might want to know. As for an engineer, find one and if he or shy is not what you want then try another one you can work with. I have been working with mine for over 30 years now.

I deal with 50 different cities here in southern Calif. and most cities have their own way of applying the codes, it's best to check with the city or county the work is in, I check with each city to be sure.. The most change in in the zoning and municipal codes, you can check all that online.

Dave very nice, that's really something with the animated opening cabinets doors, one question: How did you do that?

I used to put many masonry fireplaces in my projects because that was the norm back then. Now you can't find any mason's to do them anymore and if you were doing a second story addition , around here cities won't let you extend the chimney's to the existing one. We now tear down masonry fireplaces and replace with metal., it's less expensive than rebuilding masonry and having the engineer calc. it, if you can even find someone to do it. Most of the older chimney's fell during one of the many earthquakes we have had.

Best to call sales, they might give you a deal. I'm pretty sure you can upgrade though.

I have been designing projects in California for 40+ years, using an engineer most of the time, Richard is just trying to scare people here.

make sure your video card is adjusted for multiple monitor's

no,most people find their own engineer

And be carful the new label for that window will be placed exactly under the below label so you will need to move one of them to see it.

The only thing is that you can only delete one page at a time, so we must go thru each page. what would be nice is if we could delete or edit all pages. now that would be a time saver.

that site has been around for at least 15 years, I saw it when I started using Chief, I wonder if any of those details have been updated since.

I'm pretty sure that you aren't allowed to trim any I joists, look in the manufacture's specs. Trimming destroys the integrity of them..

I use a back clipped cross section and only extend it across 1 truss and get a clean look.

THE OUTLETS are now surface mounted so any outlet will attach to a cabinet or a wall. You can also rotate it in 3d for horiz.

Learn to use Anno-sets, that will change your cad layer to whatever you want.

I don't think Chief has ever done anything with this tool, at least since I've been around.

here is an oldie but goodie for stem wall to slab

, if available for your version.You can also just use the straight deck edge tool--no railing

Many years ago we have asked for sloping decks. Chief just doesn't do that yet. I have done a roof plane but then you have to do a workaround for the railing. Right now we just have to handle this with cad details

the railing wall with the newels, set them to "0" width and place using the post tool or p-solids.

any difference with doors will give you a separate listing. The doors you show are not identical as you say

Just copy your plan on the layout sheet and crop it to show just the garage..

for me the face brick should be a deferent than the box or chimney brick material b/c it always is.. . I always have to move the fireplace as far back in the wall as possible and use p-solids for the face and hearth.