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[Mazderati]

Yeah, graded is what I was trying to say, like a bolt. Thanks for confirming and for the supply house suggestion.

Traditional lally columns (metal tube, concrete fill) will push on a new 16' beam of triple 2"x8"s glued and screwed. The beam is perpendicular to and supporting the...

[Mazderati]

Does threaded rod not need to be rated for structural applications? Seems crazy the same house-brand Chinese shit used to hang HVAC would be used for real loads.

The short of it is at least one lally column lands on ledge that slopes. So, not concrete but bedrock. The thought is to drill...

[Mazderati]

Lally columns. I'm adding some in a non-critical application to level and support a sagging floor. Original joists are sound but long and tired. For reasons I may go into later, I want to use threaded rod and standoff baseplates at the bottom of one of the lally columns. Like the image below. Does threaded...

[Mazderati]

I bought a snowblower so I wouldn't have to hire a plow. Now, I need to hire an octopus to run the snowblower.