Papercreters: Re: [papercreters] Re: Hurricane straps was: Gathering Picture question

Monday, October 5, 2009

Re: [papercreters] Re: Hurricane straps was: Gathering Picture question

Greetings,

We use either ceiling joists or rafters, which ever term you prefer, but
there is only one set of wood up there. It is like a wall laid flat. I
bring cables up every 8', go around the stringer, if you can call it
that. Cable nuts keep it tight. I rarely use nails for anything
anymore, the wind pulls them out way too easy. I like you pod idea,
played with it myself.
Bright Blessings,
Kim

countryatheartok wrote:
> --- 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
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