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Gable braced?

Local Inspection Issues Florida and SUNachi Inspectors

amonagan (Andrew Monagan, CPI) August 10, 2011, 4:12pm 1

Does this method of gable bracing meet 2001 FBC?

Thanks

sharding (Sean Harding) August 10, 2011, 4:27pm 2

No it Doesn’t

kruppert (Ken Ruppert, Fl. Lic # HI 162) August 10, 2011, 8:06pm 3

Ditto

wchandler (William Chandler, CMI) August 10, 2011, 9:07pm 4

nope. no end wall bracing

phalstead (Preston Halstead, HI549) August 12, 2011, 2:49am 5

No it doesnt. Basically the rule of thumb is unless you see something braced like crazy and you feel confident that it is braced to code (not sure you will) then go ahead and mark it for your client. And guess what…no credit anyway.