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You won't be able to see the pad stones as they'll be sat underneath the RSJ. On the right-hand side it looks like there is new gypsum plaster around the end of where a pad stone should be.
I'd chip a bit of that off on the underside of where the RSJ should be. if that makes sense.
I'm no engineer (so ignore what i'm about to say) but the arch doesn't look like it would bear any load, and so padstone or not, the picture technics posted would be how it's loaded.
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Just seen this super useful diagram, thanks so much for knocking it up. Makes understanding a lot easier when inevitably things can get lost in translation. I'll look again with the torch to see if I can see said padstones and if not peel more plaster away.
@tgr @bigshape thanks for explaining this. Do you think you could expect your usual builder to know about these things? If you don't know no worries, you've all be so useful already.