Not only do you discover a water leak from a broken vent pipe in the wall, but you also see this when you take down the ceiling drywall. This is the floor drain in the bathroom above, where they have simply halved the joist in the floor structure to place the floor drain
. It is a 45x220 with a span between supports of about 3.8M, and the notch is approximately cc 170 from one end and 210 from the other.
My question is how much this affects the load-bearing capacity? Also note how they've solved the support for the floor drain, couldn't they have bridged the entire way from joist to joist. This is a house newly built in 2016. My thought is that this should be sent to the house manufacturer, but I want an idea of how wrong this is in terms of load-bearing capacity. Above this is a bathroom with screw-glued floor chipboard, leveling compound, tiles, and then the attic. Stockholm.
Thanks for any response if someone could take a quick look.
. It is a 45x220 with a span between supports of about 3.8M, and the notch is approximately cc 170 from one end and 210 from the other. My question is how much this affects the load-bearing capacity? Also note how they've solved the support for the floor drain, couldn't they have bridged the entire way from joist to joist
. This is a house newly built in 2016. My thought is that this should be sent to the house manufacturer, but I want an idea of how wrong this is in terms of load-bearing capacity. Above this is a bathroom with screw-glued floor chipboard, leveling compound, tiles, and then the attic. Stockholm.Thanks for any response if someone could take a quick look.
Criminal and carried out by someone who has no clue what he's doing. Above all, it affects the floor load. The conditions are already strained with a whole 45x220 with a 3.8 m span. C/c 600 mm I guess. It is possible to measure how much the instantaneous deflection is if a 100 kg person stands on the beam as close to the floor drain as possible. To assess the effects on load-bearing capacity, more info and drawings are needed. Some reinforcement with appropriately designed noggings can probably be done from underneath.
If you happen to know any konstruktör in the Stockholm area who does these kinds of calculations, feel free to PM me a recommendation.
Have access to a total station so could measure deflection quite easily actually.
Unfortunately, I have few contacts in your area anymore. If you can measure the instantaneous deflection, that information can be used to calculate backwards. The house is quite poorly structured from a construction viewpoint, unfortunately. Many walls upstairs that are not matched by walls on the ground floor. There are others here on the Byggahus forum who are good at legal aspects, but if this isn't a hidden construction fault, I would be surprised.
My thought is to.. will take this further.. thanks for the help and will update when I know more.