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Hi all
I'm having an extension built and knocking through the back wall. My builder has put two vertical steels and one horizontal steel to hold up the top floor of the house - a goalpost if you like
My question
in the structural engineers drawings, it states the the two vertical columns should be on a 1m2 concrete pad each.
But my builder has put them on the original house foundation that’s only 300mm wide and around 300mm deep.
Currently the column sits on a steel plate that my builder has put on top of the original foundation.
I went out there earlier and I can physically get my hand underneath about 80mm of the steel post, where it isn’t fully on the original foundation
This concerned me, as it’s holding the house up. But My builder assures me it’s fine and says he will pour concrete around it after, once he’s ripped the current floor up
Does that sound ok? And is that possible?
I'm having an extension built and knocking through the back wall. My builder has put two vertical steels and one horizontal steel to hold up the top floor of the house - a goalpost if you like
My question
in the structural engineers drawings, it states the the two vertical columns should be on a 1m2 concrete pad each.
But my builder has put them on the original house foundation that’s only 300mm wide and around 300mm deep.
Currently the column sits on a steel plate that my builder has put on top of the original foundation.
I went out there earlier and I can physically get my hand underneath about 80mm of the steel post, where it isn’t fully on the original foundation
This concerned me, as it’s holding the house up. But My builder assures me it’s fine and says he will pour concrete around it after, once he’s ripped the current floor up
Does that sound ok? And is that possible?