Cripple Wall Bracing and Foundation Bolting: What a Seismic Retrofit of an Older House Involves
Walk into the crawl space of a house built before the 1980s and you will often find the same condition: a short stud wall, maybe two feet tall, sitting on a concrete stem wall with nothing holding the two together except gravity and a few rusted nails. That short wall is called a cripple wall, […]