Robert
Lox,#2Author of original report
Fri, December 08, 2006
You sir need to check the facts before you enter an uninformed opinion. 1. Home Depot does not quote building codes. Correct, but they do subcontract to companies that are responsible for proper design to current codes. 2. Father is an Architect? Thats nice, but are his buildings in South Florida? It is a whole different set of rules for the Hurricane state. My Architect put down the proper loads, of which the Home Depot contracted engineer did not follow when designing the trusses. That was the reason the first minor repair was done, but they still did not bring them up to the known South Florida building code, of which their own contract states they are responsible for the proper upper, lower, live and dead loads. 3. Talk to an engineer for main reason. Of course I did. South Florida building code requires a 10 lb Bottom cord live load. With all the engineers and inspectors I have spoken with I now know about these things, of which I trusted the Home Depot contracted engineer to do properly. 4. 12,000 dollars for trusses. This is South Florida, not Arizona, building is very expensive here. I have the reciepts for proof. It is for three different structures, a large addition, a detatched garage, and a carport. All designed by the Home Depot contracted engineer without proper Hurricane required bottom cord loading. 5. Smell of BS. You must need a shower after the ignorant BS you put out for what I know now is a greedy, deceitful, untrustworthy company. They could have put pressure on the truss company to do the repairs for a fraction of the cost that I had to pay. After the Hurricanes I had to pay a premium for a carpenter!!
Marc
MESA,#3REBUTTAL Individual responds
Fri, December 08, 2006
Home Depot is never allowed to quote building codes. Second we will order your trusses but we will never ever engineer them. We will order your trusses per your spec's. My father is an architect and has had this problem because the engineer miss calculated the load. You need to talk to your engineer and get the main reason why this was rejected. Why was it the wrong truss, I figured that would be a main point. So I think you messed up or your engineer. Why were you paying him 12,000 were you building a comercial building?? i smell bs.