Isn't that a gap? see circled in red. Can you fit a paper or more in there?
However, it looks like a nail (green) that might prevent you from getting anything underneath, but it might give a hint about the situation.
Edit: I see there is the same "gap" at the bottom too
Based on the pictures, the post is load-bearing, but not the studs. They are also standing on the floor panel.
Completely missed the detail that the studs are standing on the floor panel... got focused/stuck on the pictures above.
I agree and make the same assessment since I was already doubtful that the freestanding stud would be load-bearing even before.
And if you look more closely at the boards under the studs, they also don't have that compressed appearance at the studs that would be there if they were loaded, like with snow, for example.
Do you mean that the glulam beam is from when the house was built?
Is it really glulam? I don't think so. Neither the post nor the beam looks like glulam.
What might deceive the eye is that paneling is nailed to the post in one direction.
My guess is that both the joists, the freestanding and the pole-nailed one, were added after the house was originally built. The room was probably remodeled once before when the paneling was put in.
The paneling looks to be of a newer vintage than the beam itself, etc.
On the height? I can understand passing through in the middle horizontally. But drilling through from top to bottom removes quite a bit of the structural integrity.
Vertically? I understand passing through it horizontally. But drilling through from the top down removes a lot of the strength.
Yes, some of the strength does disappear... but it's ridiculously much less than you might think. I had to calculate it at KTH, and if it all depends on having drilled a few holes in the middle for electrical pipes, then an absurdly wrong dimension of the beam has been chosen.
Did you calculate the holes that way then? Spontaneously, the strength should decrease by about as much as the diameter of the holes is of the beam's width.
Forces go around holes, and this applies in this direction as well. When you drill a hole, you have to do much more damage to the beam than if you saw a cut in it. Sawing acts as a "crack indication."
I once had a pair of roller skis made of U-section aircraft aluminum. They cracked because there was a small notch in the radius where the material was milled out to allow the wheels to run freely (at the ends of the beam). If this small notch hadn't been there, nothing would have happened, but now they had made a mistake in the manufacturing and I ended up face-first in a ditch in the neighborhood. The notch acted as a crack indication...
Perhaps not a coincidence that they placed a beam to the right of the electrical holes... But otherwise, it's quite amusing if the extra beam would be load-bearing so close to a post.
Did you calculate on holes that way? Spontaneously, the strength should decrease by about as much as the diameter of the holes is of the beam's width.
Exactly, but it decreased by less. Quite a bit less if I remember correctly.
It was about 30 years ago when I calculated it, so I don't remember more.
And the only reason I remember it was because it was the same for beams in cars/vehicles that I was interested in, and I thought it was strange that there were holes damn near everywhere in the beams in cars in unsuitable places. Then you had to calculate it and be surprised!
I'm pretty sure you and Pacman are mixing things up properly now. Träguiden has some explanations on how to think about holes. https://www.traguiden.se/konstrukti.../hal-och-urtag/balkar-med-hal/balkar-med-hal/
But note that vertical holes are not included at all.
The holes you have calculated are likely across the beam, which is a completely different matter.
No need to calculate this, drilling for electrical conduits is almost always done without any calculations, and I've never experienced it not holding up if you drill with spacing between the holes as it is done in TS's case.
As usual, Daniel is out on a Sunday trip with his bike, not the first or last time😀
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