The picture below won't show the error, but it shows what I'm doing so I'll start out by explaining what I'm doing:
So my house doesn't have a foundation, and we're going to get to that eventually, but in the mean time I'm adding posts and beams underneath supported by spread footings. I'm working from plans drawn up by a structural engineer. Once the new posts and beams are constructed, I will begin setting the house on the beams, taking weight off the cement blocks holding the house up, and replacing floor joists.
The as-built construction is that the house is 22' wide, the floor joists butt against eachother in the middle, the floor joists are 2x6 and the beam in the middle is triple 2x6. The beam has joints that are unsupported, many floor joists have been sistered 1 to 3 times, the floor varies by up to 3".
So my construction process has been to dig footings, get them inspected, pour concrete and set brackets, allow the concrete to set up at least a week before I even attach posts (in the case of the posts for this particular beam, they sat unloaded for 6 months). I have installed the posts with the tops level and flat and the post set vertical by level in both directions.
To construct the beam, I'm starting from the front. (The front room actually is specified as only needing double 2x10, so one of the 3 lengths terminates at the last post before the front room) So I lay a board on top of the posts, apply glue, set the next board on, apply glue, then I flip the assembly upright so I can nail it with my framing nail gun.
Here's where I made an error: After I flipped the assembly up, the center board visible in the foreground was pushed up at the end by heating ducts and I didn't realize it until after I drove my first nail. The nails shoot in such that the heads are below flush, and even if I could pull it out it would be hard to move because of the glue.
Can I correct this by cutting off the excess on the top with a sawzall after the assembly is complete and shimming underneath at the posts? Or will I need to start over to make it right?
So my house doesn't have a foundation, and we're going to get to that eventually, but in the mean time I'm adding posts and beams underneath supported by spread footings. I'm working from plans drawn up by a structural engineer. Once the new posts and beams are constructed, I will begin setting the house on the beams, taking weight off the cement blocks holding the house up, and replacing floor joists.
The as-built construction is that the house is 22' wide, the floor joists butt against eachother in the middle, the floor joists are 2x6 and the beam in the middle is triple 2x6. The beam has joints that are unsupported, many floor joists have been sistered 1 to 3 times, the floor varies by up to 3".
So my construction process has been to dig footings, get them inspected, pour concrete and set brackets, allow the concrete to set up at least a week before I even attach posts (in the case of the posts for this particular beam, they sat unloaded for 6 months). I have installed the posts with the tops level and flat and the post set vertical by level in both directions.
To construct the beam, I'm starting from the front. (The front room actually is specified as only needing double 2x10, so one of the 3 lengths terminates at the last post before the front room) So I lay a board on top of the posts, apply glue, set the next board on, apply glue, then I flip the assembly upright so I can nail it with my framing nail gun.
Here's where I made an error: After I flipped the assembly up, the center board visible in the foreground was pushed up at the end by heating ducts and I didn't realize it until after I drove my first nail. The nails shoot in such that the heads are below flush, and even if I could pull it out it would be hard to move because of the glue.
Can I correct this by cutting off the excess on the top with a sawzall after the assembly is complete and shimming underneath at the posts? Or will I need to start over to make it right?