Yes that's a long span; 356 seems about right.
Is this a safe way to support an RSJ?
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Why didn't they build up in blockwork/engineering bricks , built off the existing brick wall ,with a concrete padstone under the steel beam ? Why build up off masonry with about 17 bits of 100 x 50mm timbers stuck on top of one another ?
Looks a weird form of construction to me and I can't imagine any structural engineer I have worked with detailing something like that.
Looks a weird form of construction to me and I can't imagine any structural engineer I have worked with detailing something like that.
Looks like the sort of sh1t I’d do. So on that note I’d get it changed for brick.
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Are you that imaginative? I thought you followed convention.
My most imaginative ideas I felt compelled to keep off the forum. You professionals simply aren’t ready for my advanced techniques. You’d all simply mock. Give it a few years and all your walls will be soaked bread and Cheerios.
Each one of those timbers could shrink across the grain by as much as say 3mm. It could mean then, that the steel settles onto something it shouldn't or it could have no consequences whatsoever. Vertical (grain) timber propping would have made more sense.Given that wood expands and contracts, that steel would be going up and down like a yo yo
It's also about three times stronger parallel to the grain than it is perpendicular to the grain (as it is in the pic).
What would happen if roof leaked and those timbers got soaked?
must be a noseall job
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