Hello!
We are going to extend our kitchen by about 2.5m to an addition and will need to take down the old exterior wall. It will be an HEA200 beam with a span of 3.40m that will support the old exterior wall.
But I'm a bit concerned about how the foundation is doing, i.e., the point load on the basement wall. I will be setting up 2 pieces of 170x45 laminated and screwed together as pillars with a height of 2.30m. The pillars will be clad and laminated/screwed with plywood to increase durability.
Since the house has a frame of standing planks, the pillars will also be screwed into the frame for lateral anchoring.
The pillar is placed on the now visible sill, which in turn is anchored with the foundation/basement wall.
Can the point load on the sill be distributed in a good way? Or does the sill distribute the load regardless? Is there another way to do this?
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We are going to extend our kitchen by about 2.5m to an addition and will need to take down the old exterior wall. It will be an HEA200 beam with a span of 3.40m that will support the old exterior wall.
But I'm a bit concerned about how the foundation is doing, i.e., the point load on the basement wall. I will be setting up 2 pieces of 170x45 laminated and screwed together as pillars with a height of 2.30m. The pillars will be clad and laminated/screwed with plywood to increase durability.
Since the house has a frame of standing planks, the pillars will also be screwed into the frame for lateral anchoring.
The pillar is placed on the now visible sill, which in turn is anchored with the foundation/basement wall.
Can the point load on the sill be distributed in a good way? Or does the sill distribute the load regardless? Is there another way to do this?
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If the basement wall is built with blocks, the pressure will be distributed triangularly down to the foundation. The load will spread over several meters, so I don't think it's a problem.
However, if it had been a point load directly on the slab, additional reinforcement would have been required in it. (Difficult to do afterwards)
However, if it had been a point load directly on the slab, additional reinforcement would have been required in it. (Difficult to do afterwards)