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HomeMy WebLinkAbout615 CITY PARK AVE - SPECIAL INSPECTIONS - 11/20/1998November 20, 1998 Structured Engineering 318 East Oak Street Fort Collins, CO 80524 Phone (970)-495-0810 Fax (970)-224-1314 Ms. Eleanor Granade 615 City Park Avenue Fort Collins, CO 80521 Subject: Recommendations for new basement egress window lintels. Eleanor, The basement egress windows in your house at the above address require lintels to support the structure above. There are many ways of providing support, but it appears your simplest solution is to provide flat steel plates that span the rough framing on each side of the recently installed windows. Each plate should be 8" wide and 1/2" thick. The east and west basement walls are the only windows where the steel plate is required, but I would recommend that the 2x10 in the top of the window opening in the south wall be supported on the vertical side members rather than just screwed into the floor sill plate above as it is now. If some arrangement other than the recommended steel plates above the windows is preferred, 1 can make other recommendations. Please let me know if 1 can do anything further for you. cc: Mr. Sam Hancock - City Building Dept. Structute Integrity Analysis Concrete, Steel and Timber Structural design Roads and Highways Land Development