Comments on: Superior Walls http://askthebuildingexperts.com/superior-walls/ Columbus, Ohio Area Custom Home Building and Improvement Information Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:26:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: admin http://askthebuildingexperts.com/superior-walls/comment-page-1/#comment-7124 admin Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:20:58 +0000 http://askthebuildingexperts.com.s66127.gridserver.com/?p=237#comment-7124 I suggest you contact Steve Huddle with Superior Walls with your questions. Steve may be reached at tristatesuperiorwalls@gmail.com I suggest you contact Steve Huddle with Superior Walls with your questions.

Steve may be reached at tristatesuperiorwalls@gmail.com

]]> By: Loose Nut http://askthebuildingexperts.com/superior-walls/comment-page-1/#comment-6837 Loose Nut Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:54:04 +0000 http://askthebuildingexperts.com.s66127.gridserver.com/?p=237#comment-6837 I think the strength technology are amazing. I live in a building constructed of these superior walls. However, some food for thought and a question for anyone who might know the answer... 1. Make sure you are dead on with your architectual drawings. The walls and engineered with percision, so there is little room for errors with your designed layout. 2. What happens if you have to cut the 10 1/4 bond beam back...to say 5 inches, can the wall still sustain the 5,000 psi? Cutting back the wall would mean you would have to cut back the studs too. If you couldn't guess, my wall was cut back, or so I believe. The wall has the concrete pour (floor) more than midway at the height of the wall, with the rest buried with backfill. Based off of saw marks, I believe the wall was cut back and then filled with concrete between the remaining studs. Has anyone heard of anything like this before? Oh yeah, one other thing. The walls, which are about four feet in length, don't have any bolts to the mudsill. I live in seismic design zone C. --Loose Nut I think the strength technology are amazing. I live in a building constructed of these superior walls. However, some food for thought and a question for anyone who might know the answer…

1. Make sure you are dead on with your architectual drawings. The walls and engineered with percision, so there is little room for errors with your designed layout.

2. What happens if you have to cut the 10 1/4 bond beam back…to say 5 inches, can the wall still sustain the 5,000 psi? Cutting back the wall would mean you would have to cut back the studs too.

If you couldn’t guess, my wall was cut back, or so I believe. The wall has the concrete pour (floor) more than midway at the height of the wall, with the rest buried with backfill. Based off of saw marks, I believe the wall was cut back and then filled with concrete between the remaining studs. Has anyone heard of anything like this before?

Oh yeah, one other thing. The walls, which are about four feet in length, don’t have any bolts to the mudsill. I live in seismic design zone C.

–Loose Nut

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