QuickTie™ vs. Conventional Hardware vs. Rod Systems
QuickTie™
Quality
- Tension is maintained post-install, in essence “cinching” the structure to the foundation with constant, lasting pressure
- Exhaustive and established lab and shop testing of fully assembled components
- Self-testing post-install, as strength builds when concrete further cures
- Distinct state product approval
Value
- Diversity: utility in single and multi-family construction
- Simplicity: less material for more uses to resist both overturning and uplift forces
- Service: guaranteed quotes and signed and sealed engineer drawings
- No expensive take-up devices required
Efficiency
- Installed after framing with simple,quick methods
- Fewer, easier inspections
- No nails. No tricky, long and unworkable stiff rods
- Few tools needed.
- Flexibility on plumb tolerance adds to ease of installation.
Conventional Hardware
Quality
- No solution for wood shrinkage and building settlement.
- No Straps buckle, possibly causing stucco cracking and water intrusion.
- Finish blemishes when mounted to sheathing.
- Plethora of nails damage the studs.
Value
- Expensive
- Exhausting. Part and pieces are endless. Various type of hardware is required for the various forces necessary to resist.
- Laborious: the time and energy required to install is costly.
Efficiency
- Multi-step process before, during and after framing.
- Specific nail lengths and shanks required – hard to keep up with and verify
- Heavy machinery for outside of the building components may be required
- Little flexibility on tolerance
Threaded Rod
Quality
- No natural solution for wood shrinkage and building settlement (take up devices required)
- No product approval – rod is not product; it is a fabricated commodity
- Questionable country of origin and history of quality problems
- Unfinished rod shows rusts and can inhibit effectiveness of epoxy bond
Value
- Expensive take-up devices required to account for wood shrinkage and building settlement.
- Reliant on the value-add of services (design and installation) not inherent in the product itself.
Efficiency
- Difficult to work with; can be greasy
- Bent rod must be culled and not installed
- Embedment depth cannot be verified
- Little flexibility on tolerance