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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time.
Post Subject: Dealing with an optimistic carpenter.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 6/25/2010
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 Paul S wrote:
If not, what does the shading that looks like trusses mean to show?

If so, your carpenters are either very good, very optimistic or very hungry.

Yes, this is very good question and I wonder myself if my carpenter does not tell me what I would like to hear. I pay to him a lot of money, so I wonder he have a motivation to give me good news.  No, according to him it will be no house trusses inside of the horns. He even feels that it will not be necessary to do any additional reinforcement.  He might be right, I do not know.

The situation is interesting. I have the typical ranch roof with attic and a cathedral room was build to a side of the building. The cathedral ceiling of the cathedral room and the ranch roof at the same level, so I have a half of the house deaths where the ranch roof is located UNDER the cathedral room roof. I mean that a section of the ranch roof is not exposed to open air and it is partially demolished (center air ducts etc…). In addition the old owner converted the part of the old ranch roof (kitchen) to cathedral ceiling with skylights. So, the idea is to completely remove the roof under roof and in the free space imbed the horns.

There is a twist however. The cathedral addition was belt by the owner himself – juts him and his father. So, HOW they built it only God knows or can predict. So, what I think is: my carpenter might be right or wrong but he work for fixed price and he might not want to add extra reinforcement. However, I might in 2 years to bring an extra bag of sand to my horn and collapse the whole house. So, I think that when my carpenter will onion the wall where the horns will be sliding into then I will invite an independent consultant (framing company or architect) and get a second opinion. That is the part of my plan.

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