Rick Dipper wrote:

The engineer has specifed D30 Grade for the Oak, and C16 for the other
timbers. Unfortunatly wood from my neighbour is ungraded, and Mr
Building Inspector could well get upset at this.

Could you not get the engineer to redo calcs without using C16? They
seem to quite often specify timber grades even when they aren't actually
necessary.




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Cheers,

John.

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