Using glulam pillar as a beam?

[cederbusch]

Googling and googling but I'm stumped.

I want to modify a construction and I'm wondering if a horizontal glulam column 90x90mm would work. Or are the columns constructed differently from the beams?

Is it otherwise an option to screw-glue together 2 pieces of 45x95mm construction timber? The span is about 1.7 meters.

 

[hempularen]

Now we don’t know what it is intended to carry, but spontaneously I think that 90 or 95 mm sounds weak for that span. But as I said, what will load it?

In principle, I believe that a glulam column has roughly the same strength as a glulam beam of the same dimension.

 

[cederbusch]

Now, we don't know what it's intended to carry, but instinctively I think that 90 or 95 mm sounds weak for that span. But as I said, what will it be loaded with?

In principle, I believe that a glulam post has about the same strength as a glulam beam of the same dimension.

I've made another thread about it but am not getting any responses. It seems like it works best to ask many questions that can only be answered with YES or NO

I am going to replace a much too weak support arm (or whatever you might call it in this construction) that has been in place since '57. So the house is holding together, but it had sunken down. So anything other than 30 mm will be stronger than it's been.

And I don't want a mega beam there when everything else is obviously not built with similar dimensions.

Grateful for input

https://www.byggahus.se/forum/threads/hur-byter-jag-ut-denna-underarm.547628/