I had an engineer check out the cantilever construction partially holding up
my Jacuzzi. It is a 2 foot cantilever. The joists under it connect to a
triple joist that should have been fastened to act as a single unit but
weren't. I had it checked out because I am redoing the bathroom and I
wanted to make sure it was done right by builder 9 years ago. Earlier this
week another engineer looked at it and suggest adding angle iron the length
of triple joist to make it stiffer. This engineer thought that was a bunch
of crap. He said the cantilever did not go deep enuf into the house and
there would be a bad uplift problem.... only 30 inches instead of about
twice that which is required by code. He said it had to be moved and
recommended adding a piece of steel sandwiched between the joists as a
stiffener. Bad news for me.

On Jul 24, 2:50 pm, "Art" wrote:
I had an engineer check out the cantilever construction partially holding up
my Jacuzzi. It is a 2 foot cantilever. The joists under it connect to a
triple joist that should have been fastened to act as a single unit but
weren't. I had it checked out because I am redoing the bathroom and I
wanted to make sure it was done right by builder 9 years ago. Earlier this
week another engineer looked at it and suggest adding angle iron the length
of triple joist to make it stiffer. This engineer thought that was a bunch
of crap. He said the cantilever did not go deep enuf into the house and
there would be a bad uplift problem.... only 30 inches instead of about
twice that which is required by code. He said it had to be moved and
recommended adding a piece of steel sandwiched between the joists as a
stiffener. Bad news for me.

Art-

Both of your engineers have an advantage over this
engineer......they've seen the installation.

Can you post pictures?

cheers
Bob