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2009 log home building codes?

11/15/2007 - 16:25
zato_ichi
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Anybody has any insight into this? according to a thread on the forestry forum the Log Home Codes will become part of IBC in 2009...How will that affect LHBA? The codes don't seem to account for either butt and pass or vertical log construction from what I have read so far.

Thread on this topic
http://www.forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=27834.0

The site that got this started
http://www.logassociation.org/resources/standards.php
Their codes
http://www.logassociation.org/resources/ilbastandards.pdf

The Official Codes
http://www.iccsafe.org/cs/standards/is-log/draft060105.html

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11/15/2007 - 19:55
RockEngineer
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Log Home Building Codes

I reviewed the preliminary log home codes put out by ICC. Most of the stuff was pretty basic. It did have provisions that allowed for the LHBA methods as I interpret them. I don't think there will be any problems. The LHBA method is structurally sound. The idea of the codes is to list some prescriptive requirements that can be followed by everyone. The draw back in the code is that there are so many log home building methods that it is hard to write a code that covers all of them.

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Richard Rock, Rock Engineering



11/15/2007 - 20:18
Klapton
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I worry about inspectors not getting it...

I worry about inspectors reading the stuff, but not really getting the differences between butt and pass and other methods. I've already read some posts about inspectors wanting vertical thru-bolts the entire height of the corner and stuff because they THINK they know something, having inspected kit homes before.

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