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Posted by William on August 7, 2005, 7:36 am
On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 02:30:20 GMT, USENET NEWSREADER
>I am building a shed in my backyard and want to build it to code, and I
>need to have some tie downs for it at each corner.
>
>I could use some mobile home straps that get sunk into the ground, but I
>sort of prefer to use something like Simpson Strong tie down threaded
>bolts dirrectly into the concrete pad and then up through some concrete
>block and them bolt down the sill plates to the rods, but no one in
>Raleigh NC seems to know about them.
>
>DOes anyone know if you can use regular threaded rods available in
>hardware stores for the same purpose?
>
>I was also thinking that I could use some kind of steel or iron pipe -
>3/4 or 1" size - down through the block, but that is kinda complicated
>to do.
>
>ANy suggestions on where I can buy this stuff around Raleigh, NC? Reply
>to the newsgroup - thanks!
Well, what building materials are you using?
J-bolts would work if you haven't poured the slab already.
Then there are RedHeads. A bolt and anchor system. Nice and strong,
seen them used in metalbuilding construction.
You use a hammer-drill and make the appropriate size hole into the
slab. Then you drop in aan epoxy-filled glass tube, then the anchor
bolt. You smack the anchor bolt with a hammer, breaking the epoxy
tube. Twenty four hour cure.
Come back next day, lay sill plates and go....
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