Removal of acros for through lounge

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I am having a through lounge done by builders in a house that I will move into in a few weeks time. The process involved supporting the floor joists by building two pillars at either end and placing the RSJ onto the padstones.

This morning I discovered that the acros supporting the RSJ were removed after only 10hours of making the pillars and placing the beam on the padstones. I have read in other threads on this forum that the recommended time is 48hours.

I want to know what are the risks and repurcussions of the builders actions?

 

[amwc]

If the only thing these pillars are supporting are floor it should be ok. theres a settlement issue but generally only with big loads i.e. masonry. A bigger worry is what are the pillars built on?

 

[myspace]

the pillars are built on the existing internal single brick load bearing wall with the foundations re-enforced with concrete underpinning with the pillars built at the same time.

 

[noseall]

The steels will be fine, no worries.

So long as there is no shear stress (sideways movement or push) and only downward force then i can't see a problem.

We have loaded masonry that has only had only 17 hrs or so to stiffen up.

 

[myspace]

thanks for the information guys, just was a bit uneasy about the speed they are working at.....