Recent content by Will Unwin

Thanks for your replys Because of the amount of steel sitting on the bearings (600mm in each side) the engineer says to just bed the steel directly onto the existing brick work using a strong mortar. The two beds I was referring to was the one bedding the slab/paver/ or clay tile to the...

Thanks, that's was I suspected. Any recommendations on what to use to raise the bearings? Raising the bearings would require 2 x beds of mortar at 15mm each that only leaves enough space for a brick/slab with thickness of 20mm or so. 20mm slate?

Hi, I'm installing an RSJ so I can knock through a 100mm brick internal wall which supports 1 set of floor joists above and a 1st floor brick wall. (I've installed 3-4 RSJ's before but always with new piers, etc) The wall is 3750mm wide, the opening is to be 2400mm and the steel is an 8" x...