I want to find a better solution for the carport roof where the post is removed and I'm thinking it could be solved with a beam. This post I want to remove:
I think it should be possible to make a solution like this instead where the currently visible beam is also recessed?
Do you think it's possible? What kind of beam is needed to replace the post?
It becomes sort of like a balcony construction, and then it's a lot about the fastening of the balcony floor, like the balcony beams extending far into the floor structure.
Yes, that's true, it becomes like a balcony in construction
I've tried to find the dimension needed for the beam but without success. The shed is 3.5 meters and the overhang is 2.2, so I hope there is a standard glulam beam that can handle this? Does anyone know how to calculate this?
How is the roof attached to the wall today? If the roof is built after the house, i.e., only nailed to the band section and possibly beams behind, I don't see that your solution would hold. Possibly if you had a beam going 45 degrees from about the middle of the roof and securing further down on the wall in a stud, but otherwise, I think you would get too much torque.
Edit: okay, maybe I understood your intention better now. If you take a beam and let it extend into the garage and secure it at the lowest wall studs there so that say 1/3 of the beam's length is on the outside holding up the roof, and it gets extra bracing underneath so that the suspension only counteracts the torque but not the weight of the roof and the beam, it should work fine. If there's a lot of snow on the small roof, there will be on the big one too, so there is a good counterbalance and no risk that the rotation of the beam would lift the rear part of the garage (probably wouldn't happen anyway)
Thank you! It's not built yet, so planning is key right now.
This is how I thought it would go into the storage. Then I think you attach the joists to the storage to the glulam beam with joist hangers since the joists are perpendicular to the glulam beam. It should work, I think.
Planning to hire an engineer for sizing to be sure, but it's unnecessary money if those of you with more knowledge already see that it won't work
This is what I mean with the glulam beam. The front perpendicular beam will rest on a post in the wall and be attached to the glulam beam.
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