Padstones and spreader plates

[Mastercraftsman]

Hi guys I'm doing my own loft conversion, I have full plans passed and the steels arrived yesterday, I have 1 going into a spreader plate in a party wall and resting on a padstone the other end, another 1 on a spreader plate in the party wall which is bolted together to the 3rd beam , this join sits on a padstone, and the end of the 3rd sits on a padstone too.

I was wondering how the spreader plates are attached to the hole i made in the gable ends please? Do they just sit on a bed of cement? And does the steel just sit on top of the spreader plates and padstones?

Thanks

 

[^woody^]

Why aren't you using all plates (or all padstones) for all the beams instead of a mixture? That would be much easier

You bed the plates on a solid 1:3 mortar bed. The beams just sit on them and the wall made good to restrain the bearing

 

[Mastercraftsman]

Thanks alot woody, umm I don't know why really! I'm running the new joists in between the old ones with a small gap and figured that a padstone would be easier in some places as I wouldn't have to raise it up unlike a thinner spreader plate . And in the party wall I figured a plate would be better as I wouldn't need to make as big a hole.

I'm assuming the padstones just sit on a similar bed of mortar too? Sorry one last thing, the load bearing walls the padstones are going onto have a 4x2 strip of wood ontop of them ,do I need to cut sections out where the padstones are going and replace with an engineering brick or pop them directly onto the wood?

Thanks again

 

[^woody^]

I'm assuming the padstones just sit on a similar bed of mortar too? Sorry one last thing, the load bearing walls the padstones are going onto have a 4x2 strip of wood ontop of them ,do I need to cut sections out where the padstones are going and replace with an engineering brick or pop them directly onto the wood?

I don't understand that at all!

As for padstones, they are built in just like a block or brick would be

 

[noseall]

Probably where a wall plate is Woodclamp.

Cut out the sections of plte.

 

[Mastercraftsman]

Thanks alot guys, very kind of you both to help me