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Looking for Advice on wall loads

  • 02-12-2017 7:00am
    #1
    covey09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭


    We are planning to have 3 wooden king trussses in living room, there is a ring beam which sits on block on flat at the height at which the truss is to be located( The engineer wont allow the ring beam to be interrupted by the beam). The trusses will not be structurally taking the load of the roof at all (roof is supported by steel A frame, The trusses will be in the region of 450kgs. We have given two Options

    A: Create a steel bracket and anchor off the ring beam

    B: Create a concrete corbel which sits under the ring beam

    i prefer A as its much more straight forward but i'm worried about the load on the ring beam. Any advice welcome.


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  • #2
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,216 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    What does your engineer advise.

    Because that's what your paying them alot of money for


  • #3
    covey09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭covey09


    Yeah point taken, but it seems that its is not part of the structure as he see it. See the beams the trusses are being made by a local joiner so they are not certified, yet are they will be bigger than the commercially available king trusses are certified


  • #4
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,216 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    covey09 wrote: »
    Yeah point taken, but it seems that its is not part of the structure as he see it. See the beams the trusses are being made by a local joiner so they are not certified, yet are they will be bigger than the commercially available king trusses are certified

    Its part of the designand your paying him money therefore his structure has to take it.

    Not a good enough answer he has to work it into his calculations I'd give him a kick up the arse. It's not pennies he's getting


  • #5
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    covey09 wrote: »
    i'm worried about the load on the ring beam. Any advice welcome.

    Your Eng should answer this. You have the load of the beam.

    Does your architect have anything to do with the fake timber truss?


  • #6
    Metric Tensor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,725 ✭✭✭Metric Tensor


    Yup. Just tell the Engineer the load and if the beam is already cast he/she will tell you if it can take the applied torsion of it hanging off the side.

    If it's not yet cast the design can be altered to suit

    P.S. - I wish I was listermint's engineer - clearly he's being paid a fortune!!!!


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  • #7
    covey09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭covey09


    We don't have a Architect, Its a self build and design. So you reckon he should be able to do the maths on it.


  • #8
    Metric Tensor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,725 ✭✭✭Metric Tensor


    No-one knows how it was designed or what design principles were used except the engineer who designed it. So all we can say is that there are circumstances where it would be possible but we can't say that those circumstances exist in your house because we don't know enough about it.


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