On one frame we did, with a timber sill over a pt sill we had the concrete guy place 1/2" threaded rod into the concrete looped under a piece of rebar and it was tall enough to come up through the timber sill. We located the rods and bored through holes and lowered the sills down over the threaded rod. Attached nuts and washers and then cut off the threaded rod below the top surface of the sill for the decking to cover it.
Worked ok for us.....

Jim Rogers

Yea Jim,
Still a practioner of prior planning, Good system and simple in execution. Strong too.
deralte

Just to throw in something to think about--Referring back to Paul's observation that in stick houses the sill is anchored to the foundation with embedded bolts but the framing above that is only toe nailed to the sill. If one anchors timber sills with cast-in bolts or all-thread, and the rest of the frame is joined to the sill with pegs, is there an advantage to using sill anchors with a gazillion pounds of holding power but having the rest of the frame being anchored with pegs that have only a 1/2 gazillion pounds of holding power? Using the weakest link theory I'm inclined to favor a little more emphasis on holding the posts down with one of the aforementioned techniques. Of course it's all overkill....when the frame is done the weight of the bills will hold it in place.

This post is attached to the box sill with pegs:



But again the box sill is just toe nailed to the mud sill. But with the sips attached the the posts and the box sill the post is being held down again.

The real concern is with up lift if you're in a high wind area. If this is the case then proper post to foundation connections, that Paul has mentioned, should be used.

Jim Rogers

Has anyone seen the latest Fine Homebuilding issue? There is a story about a timberframe and I would be curious as to what everyone thought about the connection between the posts and the sill....

A good carpenter is taught to nail his sheathing to the anchored mudsill, the “box” is toed to the “mud” only to straighten it to the snap line.(Jim, thanks for speaking - not so New English) This is part of the straightening
and squaring process, more than it is a structural connection.

Hundreds, maybe thousands of 8d‘s. in shear.

I’d imagine an informed inspector, is looking for just this.

Redundancy is an important part of stick building,

And should not be overlooked in what we do either,