Floor joist below Steel beam

[james11111]

Hello have a question I'm installing steel beam in gables and my steel beam is 50mm above the finish floor level .I don't want to loose any hight in loft is the any way to do it ? I marked in picture where the steel will be and joists

 

[^woody^]

LOL. A bit of a trip hazard.

Are you following drawings, surely it was not designed like this?

 

[james11111]

this is if I'm putting engineering brick then spread late on top that's where the bottom of the steel will be if I'm not putting engineering brick just spread plate then maybe I loose 20mm in hight instead of 70mm not sure if I can put mortar on old block and spread plate on top

 

[George_engineer]

Why not just put the top of the padstone to be ~25mm clear of the ceiling joist (to allow for midspan deflection)?

You'll have lots of plastering to do so making a bit of a mess in the room below doesn't really matter, just patch it later.

 

[james11111]

I have 10mm metal spread plates witch will be ideal if I can put straight on to the block , but its old breeze block , and below its tiled bathroom

 

[jks7492]

I have 10mm metal spread plates witch will be ideal if I can put straight on to the block , but its old breeze block , and below its tiled bathroom

Normally you’d have a spreader plate bearing onto the existing masonry.
Why are you unsure if you need engineering brick or not? Has an SE sized the spreader plate you need?

 

[^woody^]

PADSTONE

Hello can some one pls advice I'm installing steel beam from one gable to another beam size 152x152x37 can I put mortar bedding on blocks and then spread plate on top or first engineering bricks one row and spread plate on top in my SE drawing only mentions spread plate

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