DIY A-Frame Build | The Engineer Told Me What? | Episode 6
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- In this video, I speak with multiple structural engineers about the depth of the A-Frame's foundation. I was dumbfounded by the answers of the engineers.
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Thanks for this video...very informative!
Thanks, Lamoi! I’m glad you liked the video! I have more great stuff on the way. 🙏👍
You dont need to break the rock for an A frame, Watching from kenya. Good work. 👌
Thanks for liking the video! The foundation is holding up very well. Glad I dug down 2 ft. 🙏👍
To be fair to the engineering community, they are normally brought into projects where engineering is required. And since they have professional liability at stake, their tendency will always be to error on the side of safety factors and over engineering. They also will recommend a geotech because while you can get a general sense of the soil conditions given the area, you never know exactly what the conditions are beneath the spot you’re standing unless you drill down to confirm.
All that being said, it’s your property, you’re a sharp guy and are willing to do the research and ask the right questions, so following your intuition I think is a safe bet. You understand the risks and feel comfortable with it.
By the way, since you’re comfortable operating heavy equipment and teaching yourself, the next time you develop a property and need to drill auger holes, you can rent a skid steer like they used to clear and mulch your property and put an auger bit on it. You can knock out those holes super quickly and easily. Keep up the hard work! I enjoy following your progress and respect the hustle.
Thanks for your thoughts 👍
awesome comment. Great insight. Ty.
Enjoying the videos and excited for your adventure. Been a fan of Lori’s for years. Thank God for Dennis. I believe God is blessing your choices!! God bless.
Thanks, Andrea! I appreciate you following along. I think God will bless the build. He is making everything happen like it’s supposed too. 👍
Yep you summed up the sales job 👏 pretty well
Glad you felt me on that one, Domingo! I appreciate you, bro! 👍🙏
You are lucky, I am in Yavapai County Arizona and they require Geotechnical report in order to even be allowed to start any sort of construction.
I sure am. 🙏👍
Dang Im going through the EXACT SAME THING right now with these inept structural engineers and geotech salesmen They have no creativity to solve a problem of building on certain grounds..(Unless you pay $2000 and up) yea right Ill figure it out
I appreciate you seeing my side. Not everyone agrees with me on this.
Ultimately, I’ve learned the almost every profession within this industry likes to handle things in their own unique way. But hey… so do I. Haha!! 🙏👍
so I have found this chart so I don't know man compared to yours something is way off (what link was yours?):
Class of Materials Load-Bearing Pressure (pounds per square foot)
Crystalline bedrock 12,000
Sedimentary rock 6,000
Sandy gravel or gravel 5,000
Sand, silty sand, clayey sand, silty gravel, and clayey gravel 3,000
Clay, sandy clay, silty clay, and clayey silt 2,000
Hey man! It was a link that looked at the load bearing capacity of limestone and clay loam.
But don’t worry. The house is perfectly fine! 😀🙏👍
@@darryldarks Found your link anyway, was late last night sorry I didn't see it. it says locally they use the conservative 0.4 mPA number which is equal to 8354 lbs per sqft but apparently it's a lot stronger than they initially thought hence the 6 which is like 125313 lbs per sqft! but that would be more than that bedrock but maybe that chart is conservative. Either way, with context that number sounds more probable!
@@darryldarks I'm not worried about your house since your ground clearly looked hard anyway, but I'm going to build one so I had to make sure I had a correct frame of reference. mine is 90% chance clayey gravel, 3000 lbs per sqft. :)
Did you have a blueprint telling your where the location of each pier should be?
Yes, sir. I had a blueprint for the entire build. 🙏👍