another update. we decided to wrap the columns in stone veneer and wanted to widen them a bit, so put 18'' column blocks around the steel columns and filled the cell up with concrete all the way to the top. so the steel columns are completely encased in concrete now from the top down to 4 ft...
The carpenter working on our project is ultra talented. We are super stoked how it is coming out. Before this framing we did all the work ourselves (reframing the house and doors, foundation, siding, and steel columns)
The picture was taken during middle of construction. On top of the beams is gonna be heavy duty 6x8 rafters tied to the beams with some heavy duty screws and connected over the ridge with heavy duty straps and blocking / sheathing over the entire roof.
We ended up getting approval from the engineer to add a king post and that’s it. We will probably add a decorative collar tie as well. The framers knocked out putting up all the big beams in a day. We installed the steel columns and footings ourselves last month
Thanks everyone for the input...
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lateral loads supported by steel columns which are 5x5x3/8 thick HSS structural steel with bottom 3 ft of column and base plate embedded in 3 ft of reinforced concrete and bolted to a footing. top of columns have CCT column caps welded on.
steel columns were already delivered, picture of...
I’m sad that you guys have the same gut feel as I did, I was hoping it wasn’t a problem. I was already going to have the contractor cut to a min thickness of the arched beam to 8 inches instead of 5 due to it just feeling undersized
Pardon my amateur question, but with the cantilevered...
Hi - looking for a sanity check on the load path / sizing of one of the members on a patio cover we had designed and are about to build. I am an aerospace engineer with structural design experience in that field, but not in building design and construction. The design is a gabled outdoor patio...
