Any alternative to tie rod?

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Considering the conversion of a little (60m2) village chapel and would hope to add a mezzanine floor over one part but the tie rods would be a barrier at that floor level, there are 3 of them (painted blue in photo) spaced out to match the trusses which are also braced with external wall buttresses.

Is there any option which could replace the tension support and allow one of these to be removed or raised? I would be looking to place a bedroom wall at that point in the mezzanine with double doors at centre. Could that balance the loss of the tie rod, if so would it have to be built a certain way?

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Shouldn't be a problem, you could incorporate some form of tie into the new floor. However, this is a job for a structural engineer!
 
There's more to it than the tie rods - there are tie collars in position, and the deciding factor will be the allowed heights of your ceilings.
Vertical dimensions are required, and some idea as to where you propose your mezzanine?

Quite what the position is with the tie rods only a careful onsite inspection might say. Are they under tension, could they be re-located, what of an alternative.
 
I daresay there will be a solution, as mentioned difficult to answer more fully without any dimensions, proposed level of the mezz etc. Though it may involve a pair of beefy steel rafters adjacent to the offending timber one that did not have to rely on a tie.

Is it listed at all?
 
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Thanks,

this is just theoretical in deciding to buy or not by working out what is viable and budgetable. All real stuff will be checked with SE etc

Tie rod is about 3.7 m from floor full height to ceiling estimated as approaching 5m. Mezzanine at standard height from floor below???

Would have new floor from back wall to ideally in front of that first tie rod.
 

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