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Posted by on August 9, 2005, 8:55 pm
> William wrote:
>> 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....
>
> I have to build the shed on concrete footers, and due to sloping land, I
> want to use the long bolts (not just the j-bolts) attached to the re-bar
> in the footer - but it has to run through 1 to 3 7 inch thick concrete
> blocks, so the rods need to be taller than the average j-bolts.
>
> Any idea where I can find the threaded rods and the stainless fastners
> in Raleigh? HD and Lowes doesn't have them.
Do codes require tie downs these days? Seems like over kill to me. How
big is this "shed". Any thing over 12x12 would not be a shed to me. I
have a 12x20 and a 6x8 and they are just sitting on concrete blocks. If
the wind is strong enough to blow them away I think that will be the
least of my worries - losing the shed and contents.
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