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skyking

Lifer

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When I got this plan going, I set a goal of not having any ducts or BS dangling below the floor system. What a PITA that has been! I've been learning sheetmetal along the way and did a 4" panel reducer on this bend, which required cutting the long way bend. I wanted stuff that just plugged together. No, Not so much.


That long run of holes is filled up now.


Not a fancy elegant reducer, just a dirty old end cap transition to 8" round. I will cut in a 6" to 3.25x14 wall riser near that area to get up to the sunroom on the 2nd floor. It is a bit locked in from other routes so I figured out a shortcut.

 

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Micrornd

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49 years in construction and I still enjoy the hell out of seeing tradesmen that actually know what they are doing and do quality work.

 

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skyking

Lifer

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@Micrornd if those tradesmen are available let me know

 

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skyking

Lifer

Nov 21, 2001

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slowly but Shirley ( Don't call me Shirley ).




Ducts are in and we closed it off with the last joists.

 

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Mr.IncrediblyBored

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Any reason you used the TJI over open truss style beams? I wonder if that would have made the hvac easier.

 

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Greenman

Lifer

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Mr.IncrediblyBored said:

Any reason you used the TJI over open truss style beams? I wonder if that would have made the hvac easier.

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Because TJ's are readily available, span and load information is published and accepted by pretty much every building official, they're inexpensive, light and easy to handle, and you can hack massive holes through them. The question should be, why would anyone use anything else?

 

skyking

Lifer

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^ pretty much all of that.
Looking back, I would have been better off with 14¨s
I did 11 7/8" because it covered all the bases, but the added material cost going to 14" might have been $2500.
That is such a nothingburger in the whole scheme of things.
The guys were putting down subfloor and I was putting rail around the stairwell and covering the shaft for safety. I set it back 7/16"from the edge of the hole so we can frame those walls and leave the railings in place.
I did not want a scenario where the railing had to be removed and then you are working at an open hole again.



The floor feels great! all of this is where I put in the enhanced I-joists, and it is quiet and solid already, without the sheetrock below.

 

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