I won’t bother you with how I got here, but suffice it to say that a handshake isn’t worth what it used to be. Anyway, I have a new poured perimeter foundation on my house, studwall installed, house dropped back down, ready for sheathing. But….. in 5 places the mudsill doesn’t have a foundation bolt within 12″ of the end of a piece of the mudsill, and the BI insists on them. I’m thinking a bolt epoxied into a hole in the concrete, but I have just 11″ to work with above the mudsill – not enough room to get a drill + bit in there. So, how to get a hole in the concrete with just 11″ to work in? Anyone? Thanks.
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Milwaukee right angle drill.
It's going to be slow without a hammer drill or SDS but it will get the job done and you'll have another tool in your corral. I don't know of any right angle hammer drills.
I am thinking you have to remove whatever is at 11" do the bolts and replace.
Maybe this will bump the thread until someone else that knows of an offset hammer drill comes along. ; ^ )
Mike
Trust in God, but row away from the rocks.
What's sitting above it is one of five 6x6 redwood beams that supports the house (50 year old house with some funky building methods but all old growth redwood and doug fir - solid) - not much chance of moving that. I can borrow a right angle drill, but it'll take a long time.
http://www.strongtie.com/products/connectors/FA-FAP-HFA-FJA-FSA.html
Here are some additional options that your BI might accept.
These look similar to the hold downs used for seismic upgrading in CA.
if you can remove the drywall from the stud bay above it,you can probably reach it with a 24" sds bit.
http://www.strongtie.com/products/categories/mudsill_anchors_wm.html
The mudsill anchors are designed for retrofit (like you are doing) and can be mounted from the face instead of the top.
Rebuilding my home in Cypress, CA
Also a CRX fanatic!
Oh, good Lord, no. But I can give him two dollars and an assault rifle.
Looking at the Strongtie page - do you mean the FA and FHA? Thanks.
John Sprung is an EXPERT at this miserable stuff.
He may have managed to blot out the memory though........
Joe H
nice to know, thanks
Jay"it aint the work I mind,
It's the feeling of falling further behind."Bozini Latini
Apparently, you can get a right angle attachment for an SDS. Saw it discussed here several months ago -- somebody in pretty much the same boat you're in -- and at least one poster said that they worked better than expected. You might want to try a search of the archives.
Mike Hennessy
Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.toolbarn.com/product/bosch/1618580000/?ref=base
View ImageRebuilding my home in Cypress, CA
Also a CRX fanatic!
Oh, good Lord, no. But I can give him two dollars and an assault rifle.
Yes, I have used it with a Bosch Bulldog and different length bits. Grease the right angle attchment often and don't overheat it.
I ran the Strongtie FA past the BI today - he thinks it'll fly but I'll hear back tomorrow. It is by FAR the easiest and fastest option.
That's an interesting accessory, but it must beat the stuffing out of your hands because the weight of the drill isn't directly behind it to absorb the impact.
I don't see how the right angle attachment, used on a hammer drill, would do anything that a right angle drill couldn't do. The hammering effect surely doesn't transfer through the 90 degree gearing, does it?
At any rate, the BI gave the thumbs up on using the Strongtie FA (thanks to whoever gave me the info on that one) and even let me use just one to span where different mudsill pieces meet. MUCH easier.
I'm wondering if an engineer couldn't spec a length of MST strap to splice the two pieces of plate, so that the end bolts wouldn't be needed. Anyway, you have your solution. I've installed a lot of those various Simpson retrofit items, they are very commonly used.
a 24" drill bit and drill thru the plates flooring sill and anthing else to get to the foundation...
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