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Hi, I'm Tim Carter from AskTheBuilder.com and I'm here at a new construction job site
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here in New Hampshire and I want to show you a little structural thing. It's kind of cool
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Look at this. So, this is a lolly column and it's actually supporting a lot of weight and
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underneath the concrete floor down here, they poured a footer pad and then the concrete
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sets on top of that. So what's happening is this is what you need to know. See up here? Here get a
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little closer. This is the structural header right here that I'm pointing to but up there is a block
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of wood that goes and touches the underneath of the subfloor and the reason that's important
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is after the house is constructed up on top of that floor above is going to be a big post
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that supports a timber frame roofing type system. It's going to be beautiful
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But the point is, you can't just have that post up there on the subfloor
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It's got to have direct bearing all the way down to the floor
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So you can see how that happens. You've got the wood column above. You've got solid subflooring
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You've got that block of wood, this header, and then, of course, the column is directly under the load
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So that's a little structural thing you need to know about when you build a home
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You've got to make sure you have those bearing points. I'm Tim Carter for AskTheBuilder.com
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