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A friend of mine is building a garage which is 42 X 30 on a slab.
he has twelve foot high 2 X 4 stud walls and has stick frammed the roof using 2 X 8 rafters 16″ OC and a 2 X 8 ridge beam. The pitch is 6/12. He has put 2X4 X 4 ft long wind beams way up top on each rafter with no other ties from wall to wall. I looked at the building and told him I thought he needed some more framing to tie the walls together. I am not a framer but this looks unsafe to me. Does anyone have any thoughts on this.? (the roof is decked and dryed in and has the roofing on the ridge ready for the roofers)
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A friend of mine is building a garage which is 42 X 30 on a slab.
he has twelve foot high 2 X 4 stud walls and has stick frammed the roof using 2 X 8 rafters 16" OC and a 2 X 8 ridge beam. The pitch is 6/12. He has put 2X4 X 4 ft long wind beams way up top on each rafter with no other ties from wall to wall. I looked at the building and told him I thought he needed some more framing to tie the walls together. I am not a framer but this looks unsafe to me. Does anyone have any thoughts on this.? (the roof is decked and dryed in and has the roofing on the ridge ready for the roofers)