Chief16Designer

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  1. Chief16Designer
    This will help to make your floors and ceilings the same ht
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    Make sure baseline is the same hight
  3. Chief16Designer
    He repaired a leak in the area when the house was approaching the end of its 2 year warranty. The leak is back. This makes the builder part responsible
  4. Chief16Designer
    if its a leak the roofer it should not be a leak criket or no criket , on new construction is 10 years warranty
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    This may be an option
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    As long as you have enough shear wall 6"or 8" wall will do it, for the picture you may need steel it has no shear wall I also had seen other engineers using 2 Hardy steel walls on top of each other 12' high steel on the bottom and 8'high steel on top
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    Do a plan check make sure you have closed rooms
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    it might be an invisible wall delete it
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    2 layers of 5/8 drywall = 1 hr fire wall check on that most of the inspectors don't pay attention to the 1 or 2 layers 1 layers = 30 min
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    You could open the wall check ballon through celling above
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    Check layers make sure you have a closed room post the plan
  13. Chief16Designer
    it looks like you stil have interior casing and sill checked uncheck it
  14. Chief16Designer
    Doorway with no interior or exterior casing no threshold
  15. Chief16Designer
    Not a window passthrough with no casing
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    No casing
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    I would make it a wall 24" or 36" with a doorway and a passthrough
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    Under wall structure tab ballon through ceiling above it may fix it
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    I use a 1" wide ramp
  20. Chief16Designer
    Some states you need a license as a designer. Consultant or drafter may give you more legal protection check on that
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    Fiber-Optics must have all 4 some people still using DSL it does not cost a lot more to ad phone wire and RG 6 probably under $200 but Cat 6 and Fiber- Optics must have my 2 cents
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    For my house I run all 3 in the same box phone wire , RG6 and cat 6 for clients its up to them
  23. Chief16Designer
    Check if it is a closed room all rails , walls connected
  24. Chief16Designer
    V10 or X10?
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    Or you can copy and paste the rail from the 2nd floor to first floor and have post go up to the beam