When it is time to replace the balcony

When do you know whether or not to replace something or just to maintenance it I would like to say, hey, you know, like pressure treated wood will last you 30 years. And but that's it's not a hard number, right? You don't know exactly how much wear and tear has been happening. What kind of an environment exactly that that wood is in. But when it starts to cross into replacement is it's usually better to go ahead and replace things once you are opening something up. Like if something has to be replaced then and you have to open things up, you know, get the most that you can for that that time and that money that you're starting to put into it instead of replacing things. Piecemeal piecemeal. If you have to replace one thing, I would go ahead and try to replace everything that you can at that time. And that's because opening a balcony twice is going to cost more than opening it once. One of the projects that I'm working on is a it's an apartment complex and it's the construction is probably 60 years old. They have wood. It's a concrete structure, but they have wood balconies and open walkways underneath. And they noticed, after some time that one of the guardrails was just a little too wiggly. Right. And he didn't feel comfortable with his tenants and their little kids. So he wanted to replace the guardrails. Well, when he took the guardrails down, he in order to put new guardrails up, the girder that the guardrails were. Dependent on could not be attached to with new guardrails because it was undersized for today's code. Now, I gave him a couple of options. He could have just sistered a new a new girder to that old girder and basically have been a repair to increase the strength to bring it up to code. But the better thing, because the structure was 60 years old or so, was to go ahead and replace most of the deck system and the joists. So in that case, he was prudent and had foresight. He replaced the guardrail before it was an issue and then saw the girders were undersized for today's code. If things aren't meeting today's code, there's there's a reason why the code changed. The code doesn't just change just to make things harder on business owners. The code changes because there's a pattern of failure. And so he recognized that and he said he just he wanted to upgrade it all. So he the tenants got some new balconies and he got a peace of mind.