Any season in the Midwest can bring extreme weather, from winter blizzards to summer tornados and spring floods.
To add strength to a large building, Summit Contracting reinforces timber roof trusses using X bracing, T bracing and lateral bracing.
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Posts of a farm shop are secured with a post-in-bracket design that keeps everything above ground. The brackets, with rebar welded to the bottom, are ‘wet set’ in the concrete as the building floor is poured, giving the structure strength and longevity.
Metal brackets can be set into concrete for holding posts as opposed to setting posts in the ground where they are exposed to the elements.
Janelle Atyeo is a small town South Dakota girl enjoying her work as regional editor of the Midwest Messenger and Tri-State Neighbor while raising kids and no-till vegetables in central Sioux Falls. Reach her at janelle.atyeo@lee.net.
Janelle Atyeo
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