I am going to build an extension with a gable roof against the end wall of a house with a brick facade. The extension will be open up to the ridge, so there will be a glulam beam instead of roof trusses. At the outer edge, the beam rests on a post, but how do I attach it to the house? I can't have a post here due to a doorway.
I cut away quite a bit of brick. Partly a vertical channel straight up to the ridge, and partly a 30 cm high opening above the window that was to be removed. I reinforced the window opening with a laminated beam that rests on the brick on both sides of the window (which is now a door opening). On the beam, up towards the ridge, I placed two glued 145x45 joists that were also nailed to the wooden wall behind the brick. Then I placed the ridge beam and attached it to the joists with nail plates. The only thing that got a bit tricky was avoiding the bricks directly above the reinforcement beam from coming loose before I had fitted the beam. I temporarily solved this by screwing in angle brackets under the bottom row of bricks as soon as I had removed the stones. Once the beam was in place, it supports the brick. I initially considered placing the reinforcement beam on two posts, but concluded that it would be sufficient to lay it on the brick.
I'll see if I have any pictures showing how it turned out.
/Tomas
I'll see if I have any pictures showing how it turned out.
/Tomas
This is how it turned out! Unfortunately, you can't see the actual connection very well in these pictures, but our conditions were a solid wooden road (22 mm råspont in two layers with standing three-inch studs in between!) under the tiles, which made it very easy to attach both the studs and the glue-laminated beam with four-inch nails.
Good luck!
Good luck!
