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    Ab12 replied to the thread Adding pillar support for RSJ.
    Should I worry about the single skin wall collapsing outward or inward rather than being crushed? If the steel is sat on top of it on...
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    Ab12 replied to the thread Adding pillar support for RSJ.
    Yes pretty much, opening is much bigger and I expect will need a steel above it. Joists will run from back wall to beam above garage...
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    Ab12 replied to the thread Adding pillar support for RSJ.
    To give current standing. Front is open for double garage door - this will I assume be the same steel as for the centre of the building...
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    Ab12 replied to the thread Adding pillar support for RSJ.
    Building is 5.7 x 5.7. Beam will carry "both sides" of the flat roof /split in half ... I assume this doubles the 32.4kn though and...
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    Ab12 replied to the thread Adding pillar support for RSJ.
    Thanks So you'd sit the steel straight onto e.g. 300 x 100 x 100 padstone on the single skin wall? Is that even enough beam sitting on...
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    Ab12 reacted to tony1851's post in the thread Adding pillar support for RSJ with Thanks Thanks.
    Far too big for a roof of that span - that's not engineering, just guesswork. IMO and with a back-of-fag-packet calc, a 203 x 133 x 25...
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    Ab12 replied to the thread Adding pillar support for RSJ.
    Thanks for this! I assume if this is concurred this is fine for both the midpoint joist support of the roof and the garage door opening...
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    Ab12 replied to the thread Adding pillar support for RSJ.
    Thanks all, Stevie are you an SE? Perhaps we could engage?
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    Ab12 replied to the thread Adding pillar support for RSJ.
    That's what I thought, this was all handed to me by the previous owners. Out of curiosity what would be a better size? It's a simple...
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    Ab12 replied to the thread Adding pillar support for RSJ.
    The beam I've been told to use is a 203 203 UC 46, based on the 5.8m span. That's quite heavy no? Surely the single skin wall could just...
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    Ab12 replied to the thread Adding pillar support for RSJ.
    100*100 with a top and bottom plate bolted to concrete foundation and to the single skin wall?
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    Ab12 replied to the thread Adding pillar support for RSJ.
    Any suggestions on alternative?
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    I have a building in the garden, which was originally a single garage, the brick wall is the original left side wall, the original right...
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