A Step-by-Step Guide to Retrofit Your Home for Earthquakes
Simpson Strong-Tie’s Seismic Retrofit Guide (F-PLANS07) helps educate homeowners about how earthquakes affect a home and the steps to take to reinforce the structural frame of a house. With this guide and the right tools, do-it-yourselfers can increase the structural integrity of their house, making it stronger and safer. For those not inclined to tackle this type of project, the guide can help you make sure your retrofit is done right.
Seismic Retrofit Detail Sheet
To help building departments, contractors and homeowners with residential seismic retrofitting, Simpson Strong-Tie has created new Retrofit Details. This 24x36 plan set calls out the specific retrofit solutions for reinforcing a home's cripple wall and foundation connection. (Based on the 2006 International Existing Building Code.)
Simpson Strong-Tie’s Seismic Retrofit Guide (F-PLANS07) helps educate homeowners about how earthquakes affect a home and the steps to take to reinforce the structural frame of a house. With this guide and the right tools, do-it-yourselfers can increase the structural integrity of their house, making it stronger and safer. For those not inclined to tackle this type of project, the guide can help you make sure your retrofit is done right.