Hello! Testing to see if anyone might be able to help me with this here, or at least guide me.
Bought two IPE beams. 160 mm. And hope they will hold for this construction instead of the columns you see in the picture. Planning to have a beam along the house above the window, and the beam to replace the columns should load the beam running along the facade.
So my question now is, Will IPE 160 hold for this? Become terribly unsure now.
Have a 5 meter and a 4.5 meter beam. The 5 meter beam will be attached along the facade above the window (to the right in the picture) into the brick. I will cut out the brick on each side of the window and "lay" the beam into the slot on each side. Then the beam that will relieve instead of the pillars will have one end resting on this beam and the other end into a cutout in the brick (to the left in the picture).
My knowledge in the area is limited and I have never worked with houses from that era. But I think there is a risk that the facade brick is thin and not suitable to support the beams. That is, the actual load-bearing construction is made of wood and is inside the wall, and then I assume that the beam needs to be integrated with that construction in some way. But I might be completely off track about how the house is built.
I think you need a structural engineer to assess this.
I have no idea. But I have someone knowledgeable in "demolition" and a construction expert, who has only been and looked and said that it works like that. But then I think maybe it does, surely, but you don't want to be unsure and would like to get/do some calculations on it so it's safe and stable.
I have no idea what the brick can handle in point loads.. :S how do I find that out?
Now we answered simultaneously, fahlis and I. We seem to agree that the brick wall might be the potentially weak point in your construction. The beams themselves should hold.
An experienced structural engineer can assess the brick wall's ability to bear load.
