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BladesofSteel wrote: ↑Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:44 pm
This ridiculous speculation tax has got me furious. I have a place on Protection Island(Nanaimo district) that I may have to sell as there is no way I could rent it year round, even if I wanted to.
WTF!?!?!
They made some amendments, but I agree its a BS tax. Especially taxing British Columbians investing in BC. Da fuq
Either way, I have some ideas if the cabin is affected!!
Build a grow-op in the back bruh...problem solved.
Can the Canucks just win a Cup within the next 5 years.
So they increased the height allowance for timber framed apartments, this was 6 story and now they are going to single staircase fire exits.
Comments from the constructors here?
The city is littered with multi family wood framed apartments that haven’t gone up in flames, this was a structure during the “framing phase” during a hot and dry summer spell that got torched. Something could’ve been smoldering unbeknownst to the crews when packing out today, sparks from the rebar crew for cutting steel, torch on roofers, who knows…arson? A completed apartment wouldn’t light up like this due to having fire sprinklers, completed fire blocking, fire rated drywall separation between units, demising walls between units with fire rated insulation. It was a stack of hot dry lumber during framing phase without any of the fire suppression that I mentioned. The question to ask is what were the General Contractors company safety protocols during the framing phase during a hot dry summer?
A friend of mine is a fire engineer he says the biggest challenge for them in design is figuring out the roof of the top floor, as the sprinklers below are facing down. So the troublesome area in fire suppression of the wood frame multi units is the roof assembly of “completed” apartment units.
The single staircase vs two is a hot button issue between city and developers
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So they increased the height allowance for timber framed apartments, this was 6 story and now they are going to single staircase fire exits.
Comments from the constructors here?
The city is littered with multi family wood framed apartments that haven’t gone up in flames, this was a structure during the “framing phase” during a hot and dry summer spell that got torched. Something could’ve been smoldering unbeknownst to the crews when packing out today, sparks from the rebar crew for cutting steel, torch on roofers, who knows…arson? A completed apartment wouldn’t light up like this due to having fire sprinklers, completed fire blocking, fire rated drywall separation between units, demising walls between units with fire rated insulation. It was a stack of hot dry lumber during framing phase without any of the fire suppression that I mentioned. The question to ask is what were the General Contractors company safety protocols during the framing phase during a hot dry summer?
A friend of mine is a fire engineer he says the biggest challenge for them in design is figuring out the roof of the top floor, as the sprinklers below are facing down. So the troublesome area in fire suppression of the wood frame multi units is the roof assembly of “completed” apartment units.
The single staircase vs two is a hot button issue between city and developers
Torched on roofing or waterproofing membranes on a wood framed building is a real no-no. Most insurance companies wouldn't insure the builder with course of construction insurance, if they are using torched on roofing (such as SBS modified bituminous roofing for example) on a wood framed structure. I really like torched on SBS membranes as they have a great track record for roof performance, but they need to be installed on a non-combustible structure - either steel framed or concrete framed. These days, single ply membranes such as PVC or better yet - TPO membranes are the way to go. Cheap to install and no torching (just hot air welded seams).
If you absolutely want to make the top of the roof "non-combustible", then you can go with a protected membrane system where you have either concrete pavers or some other landscaping above the roof membrane - but this is costly and it also impacts the structure of the building as it will have to be designed to support the extra weight of whatever you place on top of the membrane roofing.
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