Structural Engineering - Things You Need To Know: Spec House EP.06
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Hiring a structural engineer can save you money in a lot of cases. Don't think of this as an unnecessary or negotiable part of your team. As you know, our site is on a serious slope and there is a lot of retaining happening. Engineering is the process of optimizing the materials and costs of construction to get the job done properly and efficiently - the first time.
Harvey Engineering did the engineering on this project for us 'payment in-kind'. We hope any of you needing Structural Engineering in Oregon will give them a shot. Scott Harvey does fantastic work, is highly experienced, affordable, and responsive. They are our first sponsor on this project! For additional information visit essential craftsman.com/harvey
FYI I have used Harvey Engineering before this, and I will use him again after. He just gets it. If you are in another state, make sure you find someone highly responsive and who understands what you are trying to accomplish with your project.
The next video you see on this project will have dirt flying all over the place! Thanks for watching and for the nice words and support.
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Thank you, be safe, and be grateful.
Prep work is super important, but I can't wait to see you get to the meat of this project. I'm on pins and needles excited. : D
you should give a schedule of the next couple uploads
Great video although I was disappointed to see the sponsorship at the end (rather than up front or in the title).
I trust you to say what you think, however where a video is about the sponsored product/service it is impossible to be 100% impartial.
Michael Dreksler - Why does that even matter, when he's providing a valuable, _free_ service to _you._ Good grief. "100% Impartial"? As if being partial to high-quality goods and services is a bad thing. Why beat around the bush? Come right out and accuse him of free-market capitalism: that horrible, voluntary act of peaceful, consensual exchange for mutual benefit.
Dan A well said.
USS Charles F. Adams? I was on DDG-1, USS Gyatt 1966-1967.
Great video as always :)
Practical Engineering I've been watching your videos for a while and just discovered this channel. It's fun to see you in the comments here!
Ditto!
Grady!!!
Good episode. I agree with you. I'm a retired Civil Engineer. I worked in a number of positions over a 36 year career: Army Engineer Officer, Contract Spec Writer, Shared Town Engineer(12 towns), business owner, concrete form designer, and construction inspector. On the last job, I learned that excavator operators made the same as I did but that their union gave them much better benefits than I got from my employer. If I had to do it all over again, I might have stuck with being a carpenter like my father and both grandfathers. On the other hand, I had the greatest generation teaching me in college, the Army, and in civilian work up to the early nineties. I would hate to have missed that. Having grown up in construction, I am biased. I think that some of the best people on earth wear hardhats and steel toed boots.
Good Luck
Whoever you're paying to edit your videos. They deserve a raise. Great work.
Essential Craftsman Call him Nate the Great, cause he's good, better than most people on here.
As a structural engineer, I feel compelled to smash the like button
Scott and Scott, thank you for this presentation. While I am not an engineer by training and education, I am an engineer of sorts in my profession. But my daughter is a Structural Engineer who graduated from Oregon State, and then from grad school at UT Austin for her Master's, so we have followed her educational path, and now her professional path intimately, and we have been in her shadows for all her educational career. What she has taught us about her profession, now that she has been given ever-increasing project responsibilities and authorities, has been very interesting. She has her Professional Engineer Certification (passed the two-tier exams the first time!), which in Texas is not recognized, nor necessary. She did this for herself, and to represent to her firm the commitment to excellence and advanced skills and knowledge she dearly craves. She's got her PE Cert in Idaho, which is a potential state she may one day live in...that's a rabbit trail..
She has dealt with the "cowboy" contractors who want her, under the firm's radar, to maybe sign off on some material or corner-cut design that will make the contractor golden for his client, but be a disaster for her and her firm. She will not budge, and has had to have her firm dissolve business relationships with a number of contractors who operate this way. It's all a numbers game in the end, and it is the firms that hire quality, ethical professionals, like my daughter, who remain in the game, viable and able to have their work make architects and design firms look pretty good.
She speaks often about the cost versus adequate push-pull in her profession, and since a lot of her projects are bid, cost overruns can occur because of flaky contractors and from clients who change their minds. There is a balance in the Engineering firm's ability to add on the goofy overruns, versus bid high enough to profit, but low enough to get jobs. Numbers!!!
Thanks for this great, concise, and well articulated video!!! Cheers
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing that! Bravo for you and your daughter! :)
"A checkbook makes construction happen smoothly." Underrated statement. Luke 14:28
Watching Scott's videos is like reading a really good book, only we can't find this book in any library in the whole world. Truly priceless.
The cast of characters you draw from your community really make your videos unique. Community is an important aspect to establishing a homeplace in a new area, I'm learning.
I love your channel. I've been in construction since 1984 after being a mechanic , machinist then owned a Silkscreen business. I started a a laborer for a development company then worked my way up to Superintendent in 3 1/2 years. I had great crews and subs and inspectors who taught me a lot when you're humble and ask questions. When the company cleaned house my carpentry crew took me under their wing and taught me the right way. We built houses in Riverside County and Palm Springs. In 1992 I came to Kauai Hawaii to rebuild homes destroyed by hurricane Iniki. It was a great learning time for me because in the middle of the ocean if you don't have it you make it. After two years I got work at the Pacific Missile Range Facility and became a plumbers helper and after three years a full time plumber. I got hurt in 2004 and became a Material Expediter. My previous experience in different disciplines makes me uniquely qualified to locate oddball stuff in all kinds of equipment. Your channel reminds me of myself except you're awesome and I'm just amazing. 😀
Once again great video. I'm an electrical engineer who grew up in both my grandfather's sheds learning metal fabrication and electronics. This episode is a beautiful summary as to what we engineers do and the consequences associated. We are optimisers that work on supplied information. You perfectly outline the consequences of getting the engineering wrong. It's also true that if you keep shifting the goal posts on the design expect to pay for the privilege.
alright bro. What up? Can i learn electrical engineering after getting a major in civil? Is it too much?
Jesus loves you. He's te Son of God. Believe in Him and repent bro
As a young civil engineer that works for the DOT i build muti million dollar bridges. You explain very well what we do behind the scenes. I mostly do automotive work as a hobby, but i enjoy working with my hands, and the feeling of seeing your reward after a long day. Thats why i enjoy your channel. Keep it up.
I am really glad I found this channel. Its like having an entire voc-tech course at your convenience. Thanks for posting these !
Great explainer! My wife is a structural engineer, and you mentioned a lot of the same things she talks about. Passing it along for her review...
Man that post hole dig at the end looked fun lol. My best friend just moved to southern oregon (grants pass) and the land he bought is full of baseball sized rocks from surface to about 2' down. I helped him build a dog run and we were fighting rocks the whole time lol. Another great vid!
Rob Moab
Sounds like mine, 4-6” dia rock min.
the quality of your content has increased 10X in the last couple months since this project has started
I’m gonna watch this whole series again !
Thanks for the master class Scott 🙏
Great video! For non conventional design engineers are extremely important. Great to see and hear about this perspective as a structural engineer. Loving the channel, keep up the great videos.
With the over vs underkill stuff, i feel its worth noting that sometimes when you think you are overbuilding something when in fact you are possibly making something too either too stiff, heavy or whatever, where a lighter or more flexable option can add alot more strength/toughness.
Like with many bridges that ended up being too heavy or stiff for the application and fell.
I see who's doing the real hard work here. Thanks so much for making these!
Surprised that rebar isn't capped....
Love Your Video's! You're definitely one of the best out there! Keep it up!
Safety capping the rebar was my first thought too. If someone falls off that hill they are going to end up as shish kabob.
Caps are a good idea. But just like engineering they can become an object of neurotic over doing. How much you want to bet that they where installed sometime soon after this video was done.
No reason for anyone to be on that hill and he is a sole proprieter so osha cant touch him.
It took me a minute of looking at that scene to figure out what was wrong with it (to me, at least). I'm an exterminator, and I do pre-construction treatments at a lot of sites for country-wide construction companies, and I don't think I've vertically installed rebar without a cap on it before, unless it was just put in, of course.
@Axe, That's not even the worst. Just going close to them, bending down and not taking care could cost you an eye.
Boy, that last sequence really takes the glamour out of it! :)
EC, you are such a credit to the construction profession, in both smarts and integrity. Your videos renew my faith in humanity.
Me too. Loving it.
As a residential real estate developer I'd have to say, as always, you hit the nail on the head. All the advice you give works just as well whether you are engaging an engineer for one lot or a hundred. Thanks for your videos.
A great video I have seen in my residential structural engineer's life
LOL; judging from those last two minutes, you could build a skyscraper on this site with no foundation at all.
Thanks to Scott Harvey!!!
I make it a point to to stop by for words of wisdom from u sir, thanks for your time guys.
An honest question for you EC:
Over the course of this series, you’ve wonderfully explained the role of numerous professions in the building industry, from surveyors, soils engineers, civil engineers, and now structural engineers, but not architects. I know a lot of contractors (generals and subs) have a less than estimable opinion of my profession, and sometimes think they can do it better than myself, so I guess I’d like to get your two cents. Particularly, you noted that you hadn’t even worked a floor plan out yet, so it’s clear that having an architect on your team is not a priority at present.
I do love the series, so please keep 'em coming.
Very good advice on finding a quality structural engineer. It is a task that I don't envy of people who do not know about the topic. There are unfortunately many structural engineers who will re-use a retaining wall detail that isn't specific to your site and charge you as if they had done the design. This could be over designed, under design, or just right, but those engineers don't themselves know as they won't have done the numbers, or won't have done them properly. It's an extra challenge for a homeowner as the percentage of structural engineers who don't do the design right, or don't do the design is higher in residential design.
The key point to having a specialist is that he will determine which components need additional support. You could needlessly overbuild everthing and stil have some portion which needs even more support. A good engineer enables you to save money by minimizing most portions, by focusing on where the additional support is needed.
I really appreciate the permit post digging segment at the end!
Thank you for bringing engineering into your videos. I especially appreciate you bringing up the "trickle-down" effect of customer-driven changes. One more comment I would like to add is that the later the change is in the project, the more impact (cost and schedule) there is. Excellent videos. . . Keep it up!
Loved my time with Scott and son who kicked ass, and he kicked ass on the pole, but he is way awesome on the video
Dude, you need to be on HGTV. Such a positive screen presence. Love nerding out with you!
This is way too good for HGTV.
Agreed. I doubt most of the HGTV celebrities are much more than a pretty face or a good actor.
EC is a natural but I almost think he's too good for TV. He focuses on details so we actually learn. TV would never afford him that courtesy. But I agree with you in that EC is a real professional and enjoyable to watch.
I really enjoy your teaching videos. I've built homes, however, I wish I could have worked with my dad to do it. I have confidence that I can actually do anything I need to do to make the thing that I need to do. My sadness is that my dad is still living but he's not a hands on person. He always hires help around the house to do things. I told him this summer that dad, I can do anything, anything. I'm not scared of a single discipline. It's just work.
I'm a very handy guy. I started this series with the aspirations of building my own small home one day, because I aspire to live frugally and mortgage free... After being 6 episodes in, something tells me building a home (mostly) myself to save money is nothing more than wishful thinking.
In Germany:
As a rule, the architect's fee for new buildings is approximately 15 to 12 percent of the total cost of the construction project (excluding property costs). In the case of refurbishments in existing buildings, the architect's fees are usually slightly higher (approx. 17 to 15 percent of the total costs), because refurbishments can be considerably more complex than new buildings and the architect has to make more planning effort. Since the fee scale is degressive in its structure, the following rule of thumb applies: The higher the total cost of the building measure, the lower the architect's fee is in proportion to it.
Then you hire an construction engineer who get's 30 percent of cost cutting he did to the project. If you don't do this because many just don't know this rule, architect's will make your project way more expensive than needed.
So on the small number of small jobs I've taken, I usually always carry my graph ruled composition notebook. I use it for drawings and notes and what not. And I very much unashamedly ask for every tip and trick I have the smarts enough to ask for from the old timers who know their craft whenever I interact with them, but I'll usually be kind of a little embarrassed to even jot a quick note from, say a non-client. Your videos feels like those nondescript moments of absolute expertise I never had the 'nads to just scribble down. Thank you very much for your work.
The uncapped rebar comments remind me of a story my dad used to tell. Rural Arkansas, late 1920s, there was a grove of saplings immediately downslope of a stone wall. Someone cut them off waist high with a machete, slashed nearly vertically, leaving chisel-tipped spears. Somebody else came running down the hill and leapt the wall, was impaled through the thigh and trapped until a third somebody happened by. Gruesome. I'm not on the safety patrol, but that gives me chills.
Great video EC,
Let me say - this is not pointless flattery - I always assumed you had a college degree. You are quite articulate in every sense of the term, and it feels natural, never scripted.
I live in VA, and for whatever reason, almost all the GCs around here have college degrees, and most were in something completely unrelated, like History or Econ.
Nothing to that digging bar operation :) I worked several gigs as a Groundman on Line Crews before I became an Inside Apprentice Electrician. One of those crews was setting poles for Florida Power and Light. My job was to go in the back yards where the auger truck couldn't go with another Groundman and dig a 6 1/2' deep hole with a digging bar and long handled post hole diggers. In that section of Miami there was about 6" of sand on top of coral rock, so you scraped of the sand and took off with the bar. After about two weeks I had shoulders like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Scott and Nate , thank you!!! Great as usual! Be safe and God bless you and your family!!!!!
That last bit at the end with the post hole digger.... Have you ever heard of a portable hole? It's a length of rebar with a foot-long piece of steel tube welded to it. Pound it in and then just put the pole in the tube.
Loved watching the permit post digger. Made me laugh. Great way to start my day. thanks.
lol thats his son and editor of these videos
Your insight and experience are invaluable. Thank you so much for these videos. God bless you. You have made work so much more productive and pleasurable. Im pretty sure my boss owes you a check
I am ready. Get building already :-) Oh, it's already built, lol. I knew it of course.
I'd like to add that it is refreshing to see and hear normal Americans who are decent, down to earth people. We are fed such a skewed image of Americans in the UK & the rest of the world that portray Americans as not very nice. I'm looking forward to meeting many of you when I go travelling.
I’m from Southern Cali. Currently live in Carolina. I took a trip to Northern Cali and fell in love. Maybe Oregon is a good place to live one day.
I have blisters on my hands just from watching the fella at the end. :D Cheers! Chris.
For one, I am certainly glad you chose the career path you have! Thank you greatly for all the content you gift us!
The adage I heard was : Anyone can build a bridge that stands up. An engineer can build a bridge that *just* stands up. No more or less.
Kept waiting for a Benny Hill moment at the end with the fellow digging the post hole. Thought I would see a massive explosion or at least a powered post hole digger, lol. Great video as always and look forward to more.
Tables in codes are not rules of thumbs, they are based on structural calculations for either allowable stress design or load factor design.
Glad Nate got his workout! I think that's the first time we've seen him use his hands for anything other than filming and directing.
That closing sequence was awesome. :) Thank goodness nobody was filming when I was a pre-teen trying to help with fencing on our farm. There would have been a lot more whining and sitting down involved. But then again, the post-hole digger weighed more than me.
So you were at Glide. All of my cousins were in Winston. I recall going on the road from Tenmile to Glide and seemed every skunk in the world had been killed on that road in the late summer of 1964.
Haha. I wish more builders tell The truth regarding their feelings for engineers like you’re doing. Many of them appreciates more than they say. Thanks for the promo.
YESSSS LETS SEE THE CONSTRUCTION!!
As I am now making the first round of plans to unload my horrible house (at massive financial loss), I can tell you I'm going to enlist a wide swath of other skilled trades before ever buying another one. I hired one home inspector, who I can to find out was a "handy man" and that was it. If I had gotten 2 more home inspectors, a civil engineer, and a structural engineer, I would have never bought this place. As a mechanical engineer myself, there was only so much I could examine on my own and I was way over my head.
It is what it is. A sucker is born every minute and the day I bought my house was my minute. Like I said in my previous comment, I've certainly learned my lesson.
We bought a new house in a subdivision engineered and planned, but the site prep was poorly done. The slab needed 60+ piers 3 years after it was built.
Measuring compaction and getting the site right would have saved all this.
Less than 3k I'd imagine would have saved a huge problem.
Love this channel. Good luck to you 👊
If you work it right, these crisis can help you re imagine and re align your life. It's been a benefit overall for us.
When you buy new at least you have someone to sue, which you hate being your only option but at least you have it... I bought my house from "flippers" (which I didn't know until the closing), which was my first mistake, and then things just got worse from there. This house has a 20 year history of the previous owners having no damn idea of how to do anything, but loving DIY projects anyhow. Everything but the framing and foundation is trash, all the way down to the sub floors and drywall. My first year in the house a $10,000 (in home value) deck off the back fell apart because the idiot built it with drywall screws. While attempting repairs, I discovered it was sent on wooden fence posts (like for split rail fence) in cement about 2' deep. This was a 2nd story deck... I just tore it all out and put it in the dumpster. There wasn't even anywhere to begin. The home inspector didn't note ANY of that... again, I will be seeking 2nd and 3rd opinions in the future. I'm planning on probably about 5-10k of inspections on the next house just to be extra safe. It's cheap in the long run.
Anyhow... Losing about 80 grand on my house can hardly be looked at as a net positive, but I'm happy to be getting out of it. Turns out my neighbors are also all horrible people so I'd be miserable here anyhow even if the house was fine. You may not be able to put a price on happiness, but I can give you the exact number of what it takes to not be miserable. By the time I'm moved and this place sells and everything, that's probably about 100 grand. I've been here for 8 years so I'm pretty much breaking even with having rented a house, so I guess it could be worse.
What upsets me the most about all of it is that I'm going to walk away from this place without even a down payment for another house. My entire plan with this house was to live here for about 10 years, pay it off (I've paid about 65% of it off as of right now), and sell it for hopefully no less than I paid and put that money down on the next place. Nope... Gonna be lucky to leave the closing without writing a check to the bank out of my pocket.
Maxwelhse sorry for your luck.
I paid for an inspection on a place one time and the deck had a 2x4 under it as a prop. I asked the inspector to look at the deck and he said it was fine.
When I looked, the homeowner had put more screws into it to tighten it up....not strengthen it😱
The inspector didn't even notice the new screws with a different color.
You're so right about it location. It's everything.
On the subject of suing
The issue I encountered was that they had deep pockets. Largest or second largest home builder in the US so that was a hurdle.
Additionally, the law requires that you go along with whatever fixes they want to do.
I could go on about that.
Part of my love for this channel is to just be more aware when purchasing a place.
Again, sorry for your loss.
A friend of mine ran into problems with his new house from a HUGE builder too (who he later found out was also one of the worst in our area) and after many months of them performing the various "fixes" to repair the issues (which didn't) he just put together a list of 3 quotes to have all of the work performed correctly, took the number in the middle down to his attorney (plus about 10 grand for having to screw with everything), and had the lawyer draft a letter saying that's the amount of money to make him go away. The builder took the bait and that was that. Over about the next year my buddy did about 1/2 of the work himself and hired about 1/2 done. Ended up pocketing about $15k for his trouble at the end of the day. He got lucky.
His house was a real mess too... Ghost corners in the living room (the corners weren't properly framed so his house basically had 3"x3" hollow cavities in the outside corners), fireplace that would freeze water on the hearth in the winter, entire roof was put on wrong including faux gables he told them flat out not to install leaking directly into the bedrooms, lot drainage that brought the water from the entire street directly to his back yard, etc, etc...
So... I'll still take my chances if given the option to sue a builder. I would have sued the guys that flipped my house if the previous listing would have had about 3 more pictures in it. I couldn't prove they did any of the work that they straight up told me they did in a court of law so it would have just been my word against theirs. I would have been leaps and bounds better off to buy this house before they ever touched it.
Anyhow... I begin a new job in a new town in 2 weeks so that will begin the closing of this chapter of disaster. I'm hoping to have the place on the market before the end of the year and if I'm lucky another flipper will want it as a winter project so I can get out of it quickly. Other than the neighbors being turds, this would make a great investment property for someone that wanted to do honest work and put 20-30k into it to pretty much double their investment over a couple months of effort.
Others have said similar, but just stop worrying about the fill and build the house on a single pedestal sited in the permit pole hole. You can support the entire Pacific coast on that spot!
Tough being an engineer...a fun and satisfying career shadowed by lawsuit and legions of people who think you don't know anything. (No, I'm not an engineer.)
Great advice. Looking forward to seeing the next step.
thank you for all of your insight and advice
SOOOO EXCITED!!
Ha! I learned to weld at the Wolf Creek Job Corps in Glide. A great experience for me and any one who has the will to succeed.
Wish to have heard more of the project dialog between you and the engineer. Other than that good stuff! Keep it up!
Hey Nate, great work with the construction.
I love the black and white touch. Looks like it could have been from the 50s. Great advice, and Awesome video series!
I love y’all guys because of y’all I’m getting in this trade program
I love this! I bought raw land and now I'm figuring out next steps. According to the local building inspector, I need to have the foundation and roof trusses structurally engineered but I can pretty much submit a drawing on a napkin for permitting approval on the rest (not that I would do that). I'm assuming I need to know the rough size and layout of the house I want to build first.
Scott, I just found your channel. Great stuff! I'm down in Grants Pass and would love to come up and help ( carpenter/metal/concrete ) on the project for a couple of days if circumstance allows.
Okay, will do.
Thanks for the video. To me the perfect post hole digger is an auger on the stick of an excavator.....lol.
OMG thanks so much for be HONEST. GOD BLESS YOU
As another comment already suggested, the editing of your videos is great. Give your son a pat on the back.
Great Video. Every Architect complains about Engineers over engineering.
great comment regarding engineering coming from someone who is not an engineer. i love the comment about some engineer wants to be conservative and throw in material but it is not really engineering.
Awesome video! Looking forward to watching and learning more! Thank you for breaking down the reasons to hire an engineer from a builder’s perspective.
Great advice. Penny wise dollar foolish. I've worked with countless many with that thought. That, they would rather skip on professional services at the beginning. They do not understand that if a good engineer has the proper information (soil bearing strength), they can design a foundation system which will meet requirements without over engineering it. The over engineering in terms of labor and materials will out-cost the professional services.
New title card is slick. Looking good.
The last sentence is the best.
Great video, as an engineer myself (EIT doing structural design in a small Seattle area firm) it is nice to see your perspective.
Second-year engineering student out of Ontario, Canada looking to slide into either structural or geotech. I spent last summer doing CAD for a small firm. Do you think it would be advisable to me to seek out a position in material testing for next summer or stick to CAD?
I would try for material testing in your case. It would broaden your experience and give you more practical experience that you can then put on your resume. CAD skills are good to have but will only get you so far.
That's where I was leaning. Thanks for your input.
Didn't know whether it was better to stick with one company and establish yourself there or have some breadth of experience.
Two days ago I was helping a friend in Eugene plan his second flood addition. I told him why he'll need to hire an engineer. I will give him a link to this video to further explain it. There is no short cut to competence and safety.
Some unsolicited feedback... I thought this episode (and a couple of the last few) was too general and empty. You spent most of it describing the value of an engineer, but I didn't really learn much other than "Hire an engineer, Scott says so". And I trust you, but there wasn't much for context or interest. In the same respect, you may later say "Hire a framer, a framer is an expert and will do some unintuitive things" and go on about how to pick a framer, but not actually tell me anything about framing or what the framer did other than "frame". I was hoping that the meat and potatoes of this series was going to be some deeper details.
I would have found a lot of value (both educational and entertainment) in going over some of the specifics of what *your* engineer decided for *this* house. We didn't really even see the report or it's findings, even in brief. I get that every house is different, *my* house will have it's own challenges that aren't even mentioned here, but I still don't know much about what the engineer did or how it changed the course of the project and occasional specifics would make me more invested in the outcome if I knew how they effected the future.
Maybe something like, "As a first-time builder, you probably would have missed this. You wouldn't have accounted for the water here, etc. (And actually show real things). As someone who has done many projects, I've probably got more experience than you, but here's what I think I would have gotten wrong on this house without the engineer. I would have made this section too thin, I would have been overkill on this area..." etc. Later down the line I'd like to see how those specific decisions affected the project.
Not to say I'm entitled to any content or to have you make content any way differently, but, just from my perspective, that's what would have improved the video for me and the kind of content I'm hoping for in the future. Just food for thought, use it if it has value to you.
Also, Wadsworth Jr, I'm sure everyone appreciates the little meme humor you throw in, especially contrasted with how stoic and oblivious your dad is to it at the time. Always gives me a little chuckle. It's a nice light touch of comedic relief.
Good to know it's on the table. It's part of why I said something now, just in case it wasn't, there's still other ways to work that content in. Keep up the good work.
Excellent point! I feel the same way.
The life work of the engineer consists in the systematic application of natural forces and the systematic development of natural resources in the service of man.
- Harry Walter (H.W.) Tyler
You have a gift. Thanks for sharing it. The guys with teleprompters should be a little embarrassed:-0)
I was worried we weren't gonna see that rebar get installed or any shovels hit the ground. Didn't know if you were gonna skip all that when you were seated on it.
I like the new intro. Fast and smooth.
Retta, you should've known better. Great video. Strangely relaxing
A checkbook is what makes construction run smoothly. Lol!
As in dealings with any professional (or otherwise) a second opinion may be necessary. And a city review may not be of any value. Our inspectors rely wholly on the privately paid engineer/architect. In one part of town the city approved the development of some "hill land." The houses that were built began sliding off the hill and the city & contactor had to deal with it. The contractor went out of business. For me, an engineer spec'ed a 14X4 LVL to span a distance. It sagged after a couple of years and another engineer upped it to 3 14X4 LVL's (I should have used steel). The codes change, a new one is issued, I think, every year or 3 years. If it was perfect, it wouldn't need to be changed. Engineering is called science but it isn't settled science.
My cat just attacked my monitor over the last 30 seconds of the video. lol
For goodness sakes ! Cap that rebar before the Lazy-Boy portion of your audience have to run to their "safe space" Lol . Mr. Scott sir, love what you do and appreciate the pace . Facts and details are lost on some of the youth. They should be called The Microwave Generation.
Holy moly that must be some hard ground out there! That poor guy at the end of the video with the clam shells is is getting quite a workout
New intro is good and editing is getting better.
As an engineer, I'm not sure if you should be sitting in front of that excavated embankment during the interview. Wouldn't some temporary shoring be a safety-wise addition?
Under engineering to save money is far more expensive than the over engineering route.
Dude you didn't miss anything with a degree. I did both a mechanical engineering apprenticeship and later went to university. I got out of the office pretty quick, it sucked lol
I'm really looking forward to the house build. I plan to be building my own house soon and I know everything I learn watching a pro like yourself doing yours will help me with mine. I built a vacation cabin many years ago, but this will be my first real house. I wonder if you have any advice on buying house plans?
You’re a sharp dude. Why not go back to school just for the hell of it.
Being a mason for 27 years, I do know retaining walls. I here ya.
I thoroughly enjoy this channel... Ive heard Oregon has some amendments to code on house wrap, could you guys make a video on different types of house wrap, what's important about it... ext. That would be awesome! Thanks! - GC from King county, WA