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I'm told by my builder / building consultant that Structual Engineer calcs. have been completed on a replacement oak-for-steel beam (internal) in our domestic property. A Structural Engineer never actually visited the house though. Is this normal? Also, the person he claimed was the "architect"...

We have a oak beam on the ground floor which is cracked and bent. It supports a brick wall in the upper bedroom (or is meant to - there is now a 1 inch gap between the bottom of that wall and the floorboards!). We are going to replace this with a steel beam. Currently one end of the beam is...