Questions continue on truss inspections
When will the systemic failure be addressed that allowed houses with previously noted deficiencies to be granted occupancy permits without those deficiencies being corrected? When will the systemic failure that allowed Pulte Homes to stop installing hurricane clips on valley truss connections in Sun City houses be addressed? Why is Beaufort County's building code enforcement office seemingly unaware hurricane clips have been an industry standard since the mid-1960s and that the industry has determined toe-nailed connections should not be used in a hurricane-prone area?
Questions continue on truss inspections
Published Thursday, August 30, 2007
I have a few questions for county building codes director Arthur Cummings, county administrator Gary Kubic, Beaufort County Councilman Jerry Stewart and the rest of the
Beaufort County Council:
⢠Why is it that Cummings is making statements to reporters when Kubic has said that Cummings and his department would be removed from the re-inspection process of 2,600 homes in Sun City Hilton Head?
⢠When will the failure that resulted in faulty inspections of houses with defective roof truss connections be addressed?
⢠When will the systemic failure be addressed that allowed houses with previously noted deficiencies to be granted occupancy permits without those deficiencies being corrected?
⢠When will the systemic failure that allowed Pulte Homes to stop installing hurricane clips on valley truss connections in Sun City houses be addressed?
⢠Why is Beaufort County's building code enforcement office seemingly unaware hurricane clips have been an industry standard since the mid-1960s and that the industry has determined toe-nailed connections should not be used in a hurricane-prone area?
⢠Why is it that the "fix" for the numerous Sun City houses with defective roof truss connections is a "toe screw" instead of a hurricane clip?
Ray Koenig
Bluffton |