acjourneyman
Mechanical
- Jan 12, 2008
- 2
I was in an elementary school yesterday trouble shooting an HVAC problem and came across what I think is a very serious problem.The HVAC contractor cut a notch in the 20" X 6" glue lam to get the duct work through.I looked at 2 that I could get two and they took at least 10" vertically and 24 " horizontally out of the bottom of the beams. This notch was probably about 2 feet from the center of the school where the beams from both sides of the structure are bolted together.These glue lams are about 30" apart and run out 30' to the sides of the structure.To make matters worse they loaded two 10000# HVAC units 30" apart in the center of the roof line.This was done 6 years ago,30 years after the school was built.In a nutshell, what action do you experts think I need to pursue.Do you think the integrity of the structure has been compromised to a point of immediate action.This was done 6 years ago but we have had no snowfall in that time.