Mud sills need strapping?

[Denray]

Mud sills need strapping if cut through, I would think?

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[Steven Hockstein]

Is the rim board continuous behind the pipe?

[Marc]

I don't see why strapping would be needed in a crawl. That's just to keep drywall nails (interior finish fasteners) from puncturing wires/pipes.

Does the mud sill play a part in the structural integrity of the rim joist? By design? I don't think so.

Marc

[Jim Baird]

...are there no anchors set into the top of that wall?

[John Kogel]

...are there no anchors set into the top of that wall?

Jim raises a good point. If there are anchor bolts they secure the sill. If there are no anchor bolts, why is that house still sitting there? []

Plank subfloor- old house. Anchor bolts may not have been required when the place was built. Missing anchor bolts can cause insurance agents to run for cover.

[Denray]

Thanks all. Pretty much just a covered up crawl space opening. The other side was turned into a room addition. There were anchor bolts.

[Jim Katen]

. . . Plank subfloor- old house.. . .

Hey, speak for yourself. We still occasionally use car decking subfloors here.

[John Kogel]

. . . Plank subfloor- old house.. . .

Hey, speak for yourself. We still occasionally use car decking subfloors here.

Must be where the wood goes when it is shipped from here. Subloors are OSB or if you're wealthy, plywood.

[Marc]

. . . Plank subfloor- old house.. . .

Hey, speak for yourself. We still occasionally use car decking subfloors here.

Must be where the wood goes when it is shipped from here....

Send it here.

Marc

[Leighton Jantz]

. . . Plank subfloor- old house.. . .

Hey, speak for yourself. We still occasionally use car decking subfloors here.

Must be where the wood goes when it is shipped from here....

Send it here.

Marc

Years ago when I worked at a lumber yard they had your typical lumber grades #1,#2,#3, they had one grade better than #1, no knots at all,This was called "J" grade, this dimensional lumber got loaded into sea cans and went to Japan.

[John Kogel]

In British Columbia, we let them (Asian contractors) buy our raw logs and they mill it themselves on the trip home.

[Jim Baird]

. . . Plank subfloor- old house.. . .

Hey, speak for yourself. We still occasionally use car decking subfloors here.

...and by car deck I'm sure you mean railcar deck...some of which I have seen around here, but then a friend had a '57 Jaguar that had an oak floor.

[kurt]

I actually remember when Lumberman's Warehouse was still supplying the Midwest with WR Cedar and crystal clear Doug Fir.

We'd order bunks of cedar (about 1000bf), and if there was a knot or split in any board, we'd send it back and the yard guy would apologize and give us a new one.

Then, like Kaiser Soze', it was gone.....