haha no they don't, it stands steadily on beams in the wall
I can add that these metal bands are not tightened but can be wiggled back and forth.
also, they seem to be placed about 15 cm from the ceiling joists that the plasterboard is screwed into...
hope someone has a clever solution.
I can add that these metal bands are not tightened but can be wiggled back and forth.
also, they seem to be placed about 15 cm from the ceiling joists that the plasterboard is screwed into...
hope someone has a clever solution.
yes, that was the conclusion I came to as well, but now I saw in the pictures from another angle that they are slightly tilted, across the beam that the plasterboard is screwed into... could it be to hold it in place? in that case, they are unnecessary now
Yes, they could have been set up, for example, to keep something long "inside" the beam, as pure storage. A previous owner stored 6-meter steel profiles there while waiting to be used.
Yes, you can imagine storage for VP pipes, skis, small moldings, or something like that.
Undocumented beams in the garage are intriguing. We had one too. It looked like the first image. Neatly placed on a post made of an eternit pipe filled with concrete. Load-bearing? Certainly, we thought.
There was a lot of juggling with this beam when we were going to tear down this garage. One gable wall of the house, in fact, runs perpendicular to this beam roughly in the middle of the ceiling, so we assumed the beam was a support for that wall.
When we started tearing it down, we realized something was strange. Among other things, you could almost fit a pencil between this beam and the ceiling where the load from the wall should actually go down.
When we had dismantled it, it looked like the second image. The beam turned out to have been just placed there, probably to hang something heavy on.
Undocumented beams in the garage are intriguing. We had one too. It looked like the first image. Neatly placed on a post made of an eternit pipe filled with concrete. Load-bearing? Certainly, we thought.
There was a lot of juggling with this beam when we were going to tear down this garage. One gable wall of the house, in fact, runs perpendicular to this beam roughly in the middle of the ceiling, so we assumed the beam was a support for that wall.
When we started tearing it down, we realized something was strange. Among other things, you could almost fit a pencil between this beam and the ceiling where the load from the wall should actually go down.
When we had dismantled it, it looked like the second image. The beam turned out to have been just placed there, probably to hang something heavy on.
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An engine hoist, simply.pinebar said:
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What I'm considering is if it could be a leftover from transport or assembly... a plank is probably the max that fits under there.
The beam is quite large (I can't remember the dimensions) about 400x250mm and about 6 meters. It's what the roof rests on...
Ah, I'm inclined to remove those bands, planning to take down a drywall to make a cable passage, so might as well check then! Thanks for all the sensible responses and ideas!
I don't think so since the roof should be attached to the exterior walls and the metal bands are too weak for that purpose!
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No, that too falls away, too little space underneath, about 20 mm. And the person who lived there before and let the garage wasn't the type to use it (the space in the beam itself) for that.
What I'm considering is if it could be a leftover from transport or assembly... a plank is probably the max that fits under there.
The beam is quite large (I can't remember the dimensions) about 400x250mm and about 6 meters. It's what the roof rests on...
Ah, I'm inclined to remove those bands, planning to take down a drywall to make a cable passage, so might as well check then! Thanks for all the sensible responses and ideas!