Stopped by a new build site in downtown Austin last weekend

I was checking out a new townhouse project off East 6th Street and noticed every single floor joist had the exact same knot pattern. Like carbon copy identical across 4 units. Turns out the framing crew used LVLs from the same batch but didn't stagger the placement at all. Has anyone else seen a builder skip over proper layout just to save a few minutes?

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ruby45026d ago

Huh, I'd guess that's just how the lumber ran that day, not really a big deal.

oscarw8326d ago

Honestly, this is the kind of thing that happens way more than people realize. It's like when you buy a bag of apples and half of them are perfect and the other half are bruised. You just accept it, but there's probably some bigger reason behind it. The guy grading the lumber was probably just having a rough day or rushing to finish his shift. Ngl, it's the same with a lot of stuff we buy. We pretend it's random chance, but it's really just people being people and things not being perfect.

oliver224d ago

@ruby450 probably thinks the lumber just magically sorts itself out too. Yeah, no, that 2x4 I got last week had a knot the size of a baseball and a nice little split running the whole length. Funny how that happens right at 4:58pm on a Friday before a holiday weekend.