Is this structural, can I remove it?

[Seadog]

have a drink to celebrate. I've just had this delivered

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

have a drink to celebrate. I've just had this delivered

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Sorry @seadog

That needs to have passed TYA QA.

Stand back please.

 

[Seadog]

Who's seadog52 when he's at home?

 

[Barking Mat]

Your 52nd cousin Graham @Seadog

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@Seadog

@barking mat

Go back a read again.

 

[Seadog]

Clearly you've already tested too much today. I'm sorry but I'll have to refuse on the grounds that you're over the limit

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@Seadog
The only grounds you have on me is the glut of coffee ones.

 

[malcolm]

Beams down.

House still up.

The centre section tried to take me out as it pivoted on the centre support.

You need a support both ends to avoid that. I lowered my big heavy beams down on rope which worked well until the rope got too short. By then the floor wasn't too far away.

 

[Barking Mat]

I couldn't support it above, without a scaffolding or something I didn't have. @malcolm

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I couldn't support it above, without a scaffolding or something I didn't have. @malcolm

You can now make some supports from the beam you have removed.

 

[Seadog]

The only grounds you have on me is the glut of coffee ones.

Oh yes

 

[Barking Mat]

Is that to keep the slugs at bay? @Seadog ?

 

[Seadog]

More like next door's cat.

 

[Barking Mat]

So much better...

 

[KemppiFrog]

So much better...

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Your stair look a bit Orish.. It is tall enough, just doesn't reach the floor.

Coat off hook and bit of paper filled in as I leg it.

 

[KemppiFrog]

Oh yes

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OOOH Chocky Crumble...YUM!

 

[Barking Mat]

@KemppiFrog , no , they are way too short.

I can't afford new ones, at the moment. Daughter slid down the temporary 'escalier meunier' (sp?) earlier, bruised, nothing serious. Still missing a concrete floor, and ideally insulation..

These are the old ones , which sat on the earth floor.

We dug it out, hard-core , sand, etc...

At least even if it's temporary, it's safer...

Thanks for you advice earlier!

Take care, Mat

 

[Screwdriver]

So much better...

Well, it hasn’t fallen over yet.

In all seriousness though, I am amazed anyone would be so casual with a major structural element. What changed your mind?

 

[Barking Mat]

@Screwdriver , I was ready to pull it out, thought I'd ask...

That sewed the doubt in my head..

I liked @roblane65 advice, but it was @KemppiFrog , who sealed it, added to the fact it had to go.

The beam was bearly 10cms in the above photos wall, and tied to nothing, however 25cms in the other wall.

I took one out to the right, two / three years ago, nothing moved.

Then all the conjecture... Even with structural experts, you've no legal recourse...

I'm a bit spur of the moment, and not frightened of too much either (insane, in a semi calculated kind of way..).

And if it all goes wrong I've only myself to blame, and a screaming wife obviously..

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

@Screwdriver , I was ready to pull it out, thought I'd ask...

That sewed the doubt in my head..

I liked @roblane65 advice, but it was @KemppiFrog , who sealed it, added to the fact it had to go.

The beam was bearly 10cms in the above photos wall, and tied to nothing, however 25cms in the other wall.

I took one out to the right, two / three years ago, nothing moved.

Then all the conjecture... Even with structural experts, you've no legal recourse...

I'm a bit spur of the moment, and not frightened of too much either (insane, in a semi calculated kind of way..).

And if it all goes wrong I've only myself to blame, and a screaming wife obviously..

Wait until you have taken 3/4 of a back ground floor of a house out. Gets a bit nerve-wracking. Especially when the builder in question was relying on string boys with 10mm in the block work to fit the genies in.

He didn't want to open the floor and support it through the wall above

Me. I made sure I was nowhere near...