Thanks for the concern. I am planning on doing a 3rd party review of everything with a colleague.
"Beam bearing on brick wall..." was an over simplification. I meant to express my concerns with the brick wall the support post are bearing on. The bearing connections will be with steel plates...
a2mfk: I'm definitely going to give some thought on the deck details. I'm still not sure if we are going to go with a floating deck structure or duradek style roofing.
AELLC: You are right that snow load is wrong, it should be 1.12kPa (23psf), which is Toronto's minimal snow loading, at the...
I realized that the welding does not need to occur until after we have cut the back of the house open. That being said, I'm not against bolting, I just keep hearing we wont get reliable cut outs from the fabricator for something like this... might be my contractor is not trying hard enough...
I dislike Rob Ford butt welds as well. I like the angles suggestion in the inside corners, but I'm afried the beam might be too small to allow for proper walling in the small space... I'll have to draw up and think about it.
EngineerEric: Thanks for bringing it up, I have definately given the overall lateral bracing of the house some thought. This small wall was not providing much shear support.
I'm Canadian, I dont' have my codes with me. I just googled it properly, the beam is a W10 x 49. I might look at wood options again, I did some checks with Weyerhaeuser and they all needed a lot of depth I can't afford (I dont' want a bulkhead). I guess I didn't consider a glulam, but that might...
I'm an engineer. 5 Years of structural work on large construction, but now I'm doing construction management and haven't touched structural design in a while. That being said it is a home construction, I am adding a 100 sqft back addition to a house.
Jae: Thanks for your response. You mean...
Hello, I'm looking at a construct-ability problem.
We need a structural beam that spans 23 feet at a residential home, its fairly heavy beam for a home, w10x10 or W250x73. The problem is that we want to work indoors, and to do that we would have to cut the beam in half, jack it and do a full...
