Awesome … love your thinking. 👏👏 FYI, we’ve been using that same truss tie-down in South Florida for many decades, installed exactly as you described. As you can imagine, we build for high velocity hurricane winds. I am not sure what truss anchor you use / you showed, but it looks equivalent to a Simpson Strong-Tie META or HETA Truss Anchor. Simpson Strong-Tie is the manufacturer most commonly used here in South Florida. • The META is rated for 1,450 lbs of uplift. • The HETA is rated for 1,810 lbs of uplift. However, both are only rated to resist movement in one direction (uplift). If you really want the best and strongest tie down (for the application discussed in this video), check out the Simpson Strong-Tie DETAL Truss Anchor. It is rated for 2,480 lbs of uplift and resists movement in three directions (uplift and lateral loads/forces). Check out Simpson Strong-Tie Catalog Pages C-C-2024 (Wood Construction Connectors), pages 264-265.
if you look at some of the main reason why roofs fail is the garage doors failing or the soffit area being too big (more of the wind hitting the exterior wall gets pull upwards against the soffit. I wish they did more detailed testing on a made public with the videos all. the housing regulators have wind tunnels to test all of this, but we rarely get any videos from their tests.
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Very nice method, I am in the planning stages of an icf build and I’ll be sending this over to my architect
Awesome … love your thinking. 👏👏
FYI, we’ve been using that same truss tie-down in South Florida for many decades, installed exactly as you described. As you can imagine, we build for high velocity hurricane winds.
I am not sure what truss anchor you use / you showed, but it looks equivalent to a Simpson Strong-Tie META or HETA Truss Anchor. Simpson Strong-Tie is the manufacturer most commonly used here in South Florida.
• The META is rated for 1,450 lbs of uplift.
• The HETA is rated for 1,810 lbs of uplift.
However, both are only rated to resist movement in one direction (uplift).
If you really want the best and strongest tie down (for the application discussed in this video), check out the Simpson Strong-Tie DETAL Truss Anchor. It is rated for 2,480 lbs of uplift and resists movement in three directions (uplift and lateral loads/forces).
Check out Simpson Strong-Tie Catalog Pages C-C-2024 (Wood Construction Connectors), pages 264-265.
That's a very cool tie-down system you have going on in Florida! Thanks for sharing this information and catalog pages with us!
if you look at some of the main reason why roofs fail is the garage doors failing or the soffit area being too big (more of the wind hitting the exterior wall gets pull upwards against the soffit. I wish they did more detailed testing on a made public with the videos all. the housing regulators have wind tunnels to test all of this, but we rarely get any videos from their tests.
Good observation!