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 collapse with the weight of that plus roof
End of beam would be covered with fascia yes.
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 would be the optimum in bending and deflection.
And you don't need a pier - waste of time and money.
 
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 would be the optimum in bending and deflection.
And you don't need a pier - waste of time and money.
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 the wall (100mm?)

Or would you go for UC pillars/posts?
 
UC posts! OMG NOOOOOO!!

OK, lets get to basics.

Your beam will be carrying approx 16 m2 of flat roof over a span of 5.7m, right?
Live load will be 0.75 kN/m2, so tot 16 x 0,75 = 12kN - x 1.6 for the partial s/factor = 19.2kN
dead load (assuming joists + chip deck + finish) will be approx 0.5kN/m2. so tot. 16 x 0.5 = 8kn x 1.4 = 11.2 kN
so total design load supported = 30.4 kN. Lets add 2.0kN for the design load of the beam itself, so grand total =
32.4kN.
One-hafl of this will be the load on your 1/2 brick wall, = 16.2kN, which is peanuts.
A suitable stock padstone would be 215 long x 100 wide x 140 high. The stress under this on the brickwork would be
16.2 x 1000 /215 x 100 = 0.75N/mm2. Most brickwork will take 2N/mm2 plus so you are well under.
If you don't want a padstone showing below the fascia board, you could use a steel bearing plate 215 x 100 x 12-15mm thick.
 
UC posts! OMG NO!

OK, lets get to basics.

Your beam will be carrying approx 16 m2 of flat roof over a span of 5.7m, right?
Live load will be 0.75 kN/m2, so tot 16 x 0,75 = 12kN - x 1.6 for the partial s/factor = 19.2kN
dead load (assuming joists + chip deck + finish) will be approx 0.5kN/m2. so tot. 16 x 0.5 = 8kn x 1.4 = 11.2 kN
so total design load supported = 30.4 kN. Lets add 2.0kN for the design load of the beam itself, so grand total =
32.4kN.
One-hafl of this will be the load on your 1/2 brick wall, = 16.2kN, which is peanuts.
A suitable stock padstone would be 215 long x 100 wide x 140 high. The stress under this on the brickwork would be
16.2 x 1000 /215 x 100 = 0.75N/mm2. Most brickwork will take 2N/mm2 plus so you are well under.
If you don't want a padstone showing below the fascia board, you could use a steel bearing plate 215 x 100 x 12-15mm thick.
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 changes calcs?

if not, do I need to worry at all about lateral stability?
 
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UC posts! OMG NOOOOOO!!

OK, lets get to basics.

Your beam will be carrying approx 16 m2 of flat roof over a span of 5.7m, right?
Live load will be 0.75 kN/m2, so tot 16 x 0,75 = 12kN - x 1.6 for the partial s/factor = 19.2kN
dead load (assuming joists + chip deck + finish) will be approx 0.5kN/m2. so tot. 16 x 0.5 = 8kn x 1.4 = 11.2 kN
so total design load supported = 30.4 kN. Lets add 2.0kN for the design load of the beam itself, so grand total =
32.4kN.
One-hafl of this will be the load on your 1/2 brick wall, = 16.2kN, which is peanuts.
A suitable stock padstone would be 215 long x 100 wide x 140 high. The stress under this on the brickwork would be
16.2 x 1000 /215 x 100 = 0.75N/mm2. Most brickwork will take 2N/mm2 plus so you are well under.
If you don't want a padstone showing below the fascia board, you could use a steel bearing plate 215 x 100 x 12-15mm thick.
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 carrying roof/splitting roof in half

The span from side to side is 5.7m
The span from front to back is 5.7m
 
Is this the arrangement?

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 door opening, because right side is wall facing garden
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Surely the single skin wall could just collapse with the weight of that plus roof
Not surely, no. The beam only weighs ~150kg, and quarter of the roof maybe another 450kg

Are you saying if you and five mates climbed up there to start fitting a roof, but sat next to each other for a coffee, then the wall would just plain collapse under your combined weights?

If it would, it needs rebuilding cos it ain’t fit for purpose.
 
Also to add, the wall as you can see in the photos in the first post, does have stiffener single pillars. So I'm guessing that helps stop the inward outward collapsing I'm thinking about
 

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