Whenever you're laying out your anchor bolts, before you
pour the concrete footing, you should make sure that you have all of
your framing base plates breaks, covered. Most building codes require
one anchor bolt on each side of a framing base plate break, like the one
shown in the picture above.
These anchor bolts should be with and 12 inches of the base wall framing
plate break. One of the biggest problems in foundation construction, is
that most concrete foundation professionals, aren't familiar with wood
framing building codes and this leads to problems like the picture
below.
Whenever you run into a framing problem like this, you
will need to contact a structural engineer who is responsible for the
foundation and framing on the project, to get a correction.
Most engineers will allow you to drill a hole into the concrete footing
and install new anchor bolts using some type of epoxy.
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