--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Garth & Kim Travis <gartht@...>
wrote:
Now I understand what you are doing Kim. You are extending the cables
through the front and back walls of the shed roof building. Are you
attaching the cable to each rafter? If so what is the spacing of your
rafters and how are you attaching the cable? Another question, is your
rafters setting directly on top of your PC wall and are your ceiling
joist attached to the sides your rafters? And to answer your question
about screwing into PC, yes I have and it holds very well, can't say the
same for trying to nail into it though. I will be building a shed roof
work shop next summer, my building will be about 16'x16' with a 3/12
shed roof. I would like to build a 4 pod arrangement of these this same
size, that would be one facing East and one facing West, one facing
North and one facing South. I would like to build a deck in between all
four and someday put a roof over the deck with sky lights. I think this
arrangement would give the feeling of one building when in fact it would
be four.
Bob the builder
> Greetings,
>
> I do live in hurricane country, we also get winds of 90+ mph with
gusts
> of 130+ several times a year. Keeping the roof on the buildings is a
> challenge. We have decided that all buildings have aircraft cables
that
> are attached in the concrete foundation. They then are left in the
wall
> as it is built, being pulled up as each course of fidobe goes in. They
> are then attached securely to the roof rafters, to hold the roof on in
> high winds.
>
> Bright Blessings,
> Kim
>
> countryatheartok wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hurrican Straps
> >
> > So us dummies can understand what you guys are doing. What are the
> > hurricane straps for? What are they embedded in, papercrete or
> > concrete? Did you screw the 2x4's to them? Or are they just for
> > alignment? If it's papercrete how long did it have to set before it
> > was strong enough to hold the straps?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Bob the builder
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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