Saturday, June 19, 2004
I have installed 1/2" carriage bolts in all the joist overlaps. Where the joists overlap each other, immediately over the triple beam header, they were not connected. In fact several of them had seperated from each other.
I used clamps to try to bring them tight before boring the holes and installing the 1/2" bolts. Several of them were closed off due the void's use of a cold-air return for the furnace. Taking off the sheet metal, installing the bolts, and cleaning the cold air return of debris really slowed the process down.
I used blue loctite on each carriage bolt in addition to a lock washer. I don't think that they are going anywhere now.
I used clamps to try to bring them tight before boring the holes and installing the 1/2" bolts. Several of them were closed off due the void's use of a cold-air return for the furnace. Taking off the sheet metal, installing the bolts, and cleaning the cold air return of debris really slowed the process down.
I used blue loctite on each carriage bolt in addition to a lock washer. I don't think that they are going anywhere now.
