Thanks Ron,
You have mirrored my thoughts exactly.
I have little experience with repair by heat straightening, could one of you please let me know what type of costs are inlvolved in the process? Ball park figures, cost per foot, cost per pound kind of numbers?
I would like to be able to at...
Just to further the discussion:
The frames are welded, tapered "I" shape with 6" wide flanges and varying depth.
In the worst locations the flanges are rotated as much as 15 degrees, as well the web is bent/warped to 10 to 15 degrees from vertical.
The misalignment is as much...
We are currently looking at a steel framed building which was subjected to a fire some 30 years ago. The current state of the building has several frames in the middle of the building severly warped and the frames misaligned by as much as 7 inches at the peak. The building is ~80ft by 200 ft...
We have a client looking at using an existing 50 ft x 215 ft wood building as an assembly shop. The walls are 2x6 @ 16" and the roof are trusses @2' o/c. The current eave height is approx. 12'. The client would like to raise the eave to 24'.
A quick check of the code says he needs 2x10...