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| bio | website | google.com |
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| location | Toronto, Canada | |
| age | 44 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 7 months |
| seen | 12 hours ago | |
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I'm the sole developer for a publishing house, doing on-line courses and exams.
We have a web designer, who typically does layouts and courses, but I do anything that involves programming logic.
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Apr 18 |
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How do I improve Pergola Stability? Also keep in mind that the beam is attached to house, not spanning the entire 12 feet unsupported. |
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Apr 18 |
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How do I improve Pergola Stability? Yes, I thought through the notching. Notches are above the neutral axis, where the beam is in compression. Any sagging will compress against the joist, so no beam material was actually removed. It is weaker in shear, but in bending it's as if no material is removed. (Although, an upwards force is not supported) Also, it's not one screw. It's actually 2 lag screws. |
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Apr 17 |
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How do I improve Pergola Stability? 2 inch notch in the ledger board, 2 inch notch in the end of the beam. Six inch screw in from the top. |
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Apr 17 |
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How do I improve Pergola Stability? added 152 characters in body |
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Apr 17 |
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How do I improve Pergola Stability? You've mis-interpreted the loads. The load is (on your diagram) coming up from the bottom at the post. Joints are tight. The rear beam is a ledger, so it's not going anywhere. The rear vertical posts are purely cosmetic, they do nothing (other than support the ledger during attachment.) |
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Apr 16 |
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How do I improve Pergola Stability? added picture explaing the deformations |
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Apr 16 |
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How do I improve Pergola Stability? I don't think that would help very much. It's more a problem of geometry than the amount of wood. If I apply a force on the right hand post, the left hand one flexes as well. |
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Apr 16 |
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How do I improve Pergola Stability? Yeah, that was the basic idea. But I'm not cutting anything like that. I don't have the saw, nor the skills to do that scrollwork. |
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Apr 16 |
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How do I improve Pergola Stability? Also, I'd be connecting the diagonals to the beam, not the joist. The joist is just where I'd like to connect. (edited to clarify) |
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Apr 16 |
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How do I improve Pergola Stability? clarified |
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Apr 16 |
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How do I improve Pergola Stability? Posts are saddle mounted to existing concrete footers. The carriage is tightly bolted to the posts. It's just the natural flexing of the 4x4's that's causing the wobble. There's no diagonals to absorb any right-left forces. |
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Apr 16 |
asked | How do I improve Pergola Stability? |
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Apr 2 |
answered | Is there any legitimate reason you would NOT connect the ground wire on a circuit? |
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Mar 30 |
awarded | Pundit |
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Mar 26 |
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How do I tell if a contractor built my driveway to specification? For about 500 dollars, you can get a new home inspection done. The inspector will line check the contract for you. |
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Mar 19 |
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What should I consider regarding LAN wiring before building a house? The advantage of the patch panel is that you don't need to terminate the long runs of cables (at the server end) that go to the outlets. Then you can just buy cheap 30 cm patch cables to connect things up. |
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Mar 19 |
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What should I consider regarding LAN wiring before building a house? I'd go with one socket per room, and get a 4 port switch (not hub, switch) to break it down to more if you wanted to host a LAN party. |
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Mar 18 |
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How do I connect to a dishwasher bushing? This is a Standard ABS fitting. |
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Mar 16 |
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How do I connect to a dishwasher bushing? That's overkill. No need to re-plumb the entire drain. |
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Mar 16 |
answered | How do I connect to a dishwasher bushing? |
