Support beam to wall, dimension?

[Vermilion]

I am going to demolish a basement wall that I believe supports one of the basement walls. I plan to replace it with a beam that goes from the joists in the ceiling and is then cast into the floor. What size beam should I use? I am thinking of gluing/pinning together 3 pieces of 45*145 studs into a post. Do you think that will be adequate?

 

[Rigor]

Well, one can always guess ;-) Take it with someone who can calculate loads, i.e. K

 

[Vermilion]

When I have asked around before, it is borderline whether the road needs extra support. It is only around 7.5 meters long and the limit is just over 7 meters. I guess I'll just take a larger dimension to be sure then The size of the post doesn't matter much.

 

[Rigor]

Drawing or pictures? The wall can also support the floor structure..

 

[Vermilion]

Drawing or pictures? The wall might also support the joist...

No, it's not supporting anything. The wall was built only as a partition wall and possibly as extra support for the outer wall. I can see this because the interior ceiling was completed before the partition wall was built (chipboards running over the partition wall to the other side). The joist runs along the wall and doesn't take any support from it.

 

[Rigor]

So your "stolpe" is supposed to support the exterior wall?

 

[Vermilion]

So your "post" is meant to support the outer wall?

Exactly. It will be anchored in one stud at a time and cast into the floor. I will go a bit overboard and use 4 pieces of 45*170 members that are glued. A total of 180*170