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A word of warning - a 5m beam will be really heavy - like very very heavy. Weight could be an issue indoors - like the whole thing disappearing through the floor boards! Good builder and engineer may have an easier solution. Unfortunately, I am neither.
My experience of one 3m ish beam gives me and my builder nightmares - trying to get it to ceiling height was a ‘challenge’. My builder still mentions the danger now.
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Yeah wouldn't want it dropped on your foot....
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No Genie?
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We had a 12m ridge beam put into our bungalow when we did work a few years back.. It came in 3 bits and was installed when I got home from work.. I didn't even want to think about how they got it up and in place.. it's total weight was about 750kg..
Howard
Scilly.Suffolk
Technics100
Would be interested to know wha the process is for further works should you have RSJs and whatnot in already.
Our place probably has four (if it was done right, lol/yolo etc!) but we want to remove another internal wall in the future which would mean removing two of them and replacing with (at a guess) a single 5m beam.
I guess it will probably involve lots of investigation as per bigshape above and lots of belt and braces like in 6pts case.
I'll start saving now then.