the pillars are built on the existing internal single brick load bearing wall with the foundations re-enforced with concrete underpinning with the pillars built at the same time.
I am having a through lounge done by builders in a house that I will move into in a few weeks time. The process involved supporting the floor joists by building two pillars at either end and placing the RSJ onto the padstones.
This morning I discovered that the acros supporting the RSJ...