Quick Tie Products

QuickTie provides an active system that cinches walls to the foundation. Because a cable can stretch, we can over tension the cables at installation to accommodate long term wood shrinkage. Once installed, QuickTie cables never need to be retightened. Testing has proved that walls using the QuickTie system are 50% stiffer than competing systems under typical day to day wind conditions. Less movement equals less cracking with exterior stucco and interior drywall. Contact us for more details about our exhaustive laboratory testing and results. How far can the shear wall cable at the top plate be from the furthest stud? The cable needs to be no more than 3" from where shearwall is restrained. So this measurement is at the plate level, not the foundation. Installers and inspectors sometimes confuse the requirement to be 3" from stud to mean all cables. This is just for shearwall cables. To help keep the cable plumb, our designers will actually create cable pockets shown in the shearwall wall section by splitting the compression studs. Please also check these prior to framing. When you have a large opening and windows on the above floor on each side of the opening, how will do you run the cable system to the top? There will be situations where alternative methods will be used such as straps that are affixed floor to floor. Depending on how the architect designed the building we mostly run cables for 100% of the hold downs, but there will be those occasions where shear wall fastening is achieved through alternatives to cable. Are there generic details for dealing with certain framing conditions? For example, how do you work around steel I-beams? The last pages of our shop drawings address a large variety of connections. Also, see our details library on our download page. These account for almost every framing condition we've encountered in over 16 years in business. For example, with I-beams, you can anchor to the I-beam by welding coupling nuts directly to the steel. Then, the cable is attached to the weld/coupling nuts.