Hi,
I saw this strange construction yesterday at a house viewing. The house is an old farm from the late 1800s (I think).
Does anyone know what it is? My guess is that the beam is attached to the underlying beams in the roof truss, in the intermediate floor. (What are they called?)
Best regards / Jonas
I saw this strange construction yesterday at a house viewing. The house is an old farm from the late 1800s (I think).
Does anyone know what it is? My guess is that the beam is attached to the underlying beams in the roof truss, in the intermediate floor. (What are they called?)
Best regards / Jonas
Very strange device. Could they possibly have stored grain in the attic before? Now that the grain is gone, they have discovered that the floor joists have sagged. Some wise guy then came up with this construction to straighten the beams.
Another variant could be that there were heavy ceiling chandeliers that required sturdy tools to secure the ceiling hooks.
But the rope puzzles me?! :-\
Another variant could be that there were heavy ceiling chandeliers that required sturdy tools to secure the ceiling hooks.
But the rope puzzles me?! :-\
It's a really cool change. 
The rope keeps it standing, if it falls over it's worthless.
The rope keeps it standing, if it falls over it's worthless.
Immobil: Grain wouldn't have been entirely impossible, but chandelier. The ceiling is so low on the ground floor that one wonders if it's not little hobbits who lived there before.
Mikael: Now that you mention it, it is definitely a beam. Thanks! I now understand how it works. Further investigation on the ground floor shows that a wall has been torn down there. Perhaps it is due to the absence of this wall that they've added the beam.
Suppose one would want to open up to the peak from the room below. Anyone have an idea on how one might remove the beam and raise (or alternatively remove) the horizontal beam in the truss?
(A friend mentioned that this might possibly be done with the help of cables being tightened between the rafters?)
Mikael: Now that you mention it, it is definitely a beam. Thanks! I now understand how it works. Further investigation on the ground floor shows that a wall has been torn down there. Perhaps it is due to the absence of this wall that they've added the beam.
Suppose one would want to open up to the peak from the room below. Anyone have an idea on how one might remove the beam and raise (or alternatively remove) the horizontal beam in the truss?
(A friend mentioned that this might possibly be done with the help of cables being tightened between the rafters?)