Florida residential architecture question. I have this house that has rotten wood columns.6 columns and all are hollow, not structural, I think. The distance from the brick wall to the fake column lintel is 6'1, wood frame house, slab on grade with the exception of the porch. Are the columns holding the lintel or are the truss tails holding it. The thing that bothers me are the hurricane straps are at the lintel. Thats fine and dandy but the up lift is troublesome. Even when new.... a few toe nailed columns to the deck boards wouldn't hold squat. What am I missing here.
Residential architecture question
Florida residential architecture question. I have this house that has rotten wood columns.6 columns and all are hollow, not structural, I think. The distance from the brick wall to the fake column lintel is 6'1, wood frame house, slab on grade with the exception of the porch. Are the columns holding the lintel or are the truss tails holding it. The thing that bothers me are the hurricane straps are at the lintel. Thats fine and dandy but the up lift is troublesome. Even when new.... a few toe nailed columns to the deck boards wouldn't hold squat. What am I missing here.
Those columns ain't holding up shit.
Also worth noting, you should hire someone if you have structural concerns.
nothing in the columns, they are rotted and can see in them. I went into attic. Looks like jack trusses that take care of the up lift.
So, do you regularly check your attic mouse traps? Or is it a let em die and rot situation?
3 in one picture... must be a shit-tonne of crazy florida mice in there.
I'm guessing the bats eat them.
Gators?
Florida = woodlands = squirrels
They make nice slippers...well if you have small feet
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