Tim Carter demonstrates how to use the straight edge of a framing square to check to see if a wide piece of lumber is cupped.

Cupped lumber is when there's a hollow spot on one side and a hump on the other side. You don't want a cupped piece of lumber as the outer band board of a floor joist system because it makes it harder to square things up.

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Tim Carter shows how to look down a wide piece of lumber to check for crown. Crown is the hump you'll often see in a piece of lumber.

You always want the crown to be pointing up to the sky. To visualize what crown is, look at most modern bridges. The center of the bridge is always higher than the ends. Modern roads are also crowned. The center of a roadway is higher than the edges so water drains off to the sides of the road.

You want the crown pointing up so when the beam or lumber has a load on it, it tends to flatten out from the weight.

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Tim Carter shows off the first wood floor support beam in place on top of the four 6 x 6 posts. All the post notches are in contact with the bottom of the beam providing a continuous load path down to the poured concrete piers.

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How to Make a Wood Floor Beam

Tim Carter shows step one of how to create a beam for a wood floor system. He talks about how to create a splice. Part two of the process is in the next video in this playlist.

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Tim Carter shows off a few of the finished wood posts all notched and ready for the beams.

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Tim Carter shows a finished notched wood 6 x 6 post on top of a poured concrete pier. He also demonstrates how a hold down anchor connects to the pier and the wood post with very special hardware.

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Tim Carter shows how to properly notch a 6 x 6 wood post to accept a double 2 x 12 beam. This is the BEST way to provide support to a beam as it provides a continuous load path to the concrete pier below.

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