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September 2007
Residential Framing Revised ~ Backdrafting Reminder ~ No Free Lunch

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Letters Residential Framing Revised I was reading the article "Solving the Uplift Puzzle" in your July/August 2007 issue, and I could not agree more [with the new approaches]. We are a residential framing contractor in Jacksonville, Fla. We frame approximately 1,200 houses a year in northeastern Florida. Recently, we partnered with a lumber company, Panel Tek, and a local residential engineer to put together a very aggressive style of engineering that has eliminated 90% of the steel connectors in the houses we frame. We've been incorporating this style of engineering in our framing for about a year now and

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