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Originally Posted by garcmol
No hurricane strapping? My Brother's house that was built around Keystone Heights required a steel rod bolted from the top cap on the exterior walls down and anchored to the slab. Hmmmm.
Yeah framing, roofing and exterior move fast. Everything seems to crawl once they start electical, HVAC, plumbing, drywall, flooring and trim.
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My house has 1/2" J bolts every 32" in the slab that the outside walls are bolted down to. I would have thought being so close to the coast your requirements would have been similar.