Hi!
I attended a viewing of a house and snapped some pictures. Among other things, I saw what looked like ongoing work on the ground floor (souterrain). I understand it may be difficult to determine just from a picture, but what would you guess is happening here? My guess is that the wall to the left in the picture was recently added (the door looks new, door frames are missing, etc.).
The simplest thing is, of course, to ask the realtor/owner, but the bidding is currently ongoing, and I don't have time to find out right now. In a previous query to the realtor, he said the clamps weren't for anything, and the beam had always been there.
I'm just curious about what guesses you might have. If we win the bidding, I'll find out anyway.
See the attached picture.
I attended a viewing of a house and snapped some pictures. Among other things, I saw what looked like ongoing work on the ground floor (souterrain). I understand it may be difficult to determine just from a picture, but what would you guess is happening here? My guess is that the wall to the left in the picture was recently added (the door looks new, door frames are missing, etc.).
The simplest thing is, of course, to ask the realtor/owner, but the bidding is currently ongoing, and I don't have time to find out right now. In a previous query to the realtor, he said the clamps weren't for anything, and the beam had always been there.
I'm just curious about what guesses you might have. If we win the bidding, I'll find out anyway.
See the attached picture.
Now I might be seeing it completely wrong, but I interpret it as if there are 2 clamps on a glued-laminated beam?
The beam clearly looks like it has been there for a while considering how yellow the varnish is. If it is indeed a glued-laminated beam there, and not something nailed together with planks, then the clamps serve absolutely no function. One might suspect that the homeowner perhaps has a habit of hanging something on the clamps, maybe something to dry? An alternative might be that he simply stores his clamps screwed to the glued-laminated beam to know where they are
If it's not a glued-laminated beam, one could wonder what the clamps are doing there, as they don't seem to be holding anything on the back of the beam, right? Alternatively, there might be some other big problem in that room, and the homeowner chose to screw a couple of clamps onto the beam so people wouldn't look around the rest of the room so much
The beam clearly looks like it has been there for a while considering how yellow the varnish is. If it is indeed a glued-laminated beam there, and not something nailed together with planks, then the clamps serve absolutely no function. One might suspect that the homeowner perhaps has a habit of hanging something on the clamps, maybe something to dry? An alternative might be that he simply stores his clamps screwed to the glued-laminated beam to know where they are
If it's not a glued-laminated beam, one could wonder what the clamps are doing there, as they don't seem to be holding anything on the back of the beam, right? Alternatively, there might be some other big problem in that room, and the homeowner chose to screw a couple of clamps onto the beam so people wouldn't look around the rest of the room so much
Hello Magnus, thank you for responding so quickly.
When I previously asked the realtor about this, he said that the clamps were indeed there just because the owner stores them there =). I forgot to mention that in the thread starter. And if the beam has been there for a long time, it's probably just part of the construction and nothing to worry about too much, I guess. I have no idea what such a beam is for; does it have a load-bearing function?
When I previously asked the realtor about this, he said that the clamps were indeed there just because the owner stores them there =). I forgot to mention that in the thread starter. And if the beam has been there for a long time, it's probably just part of the construction and nothing to worry about too much, I guess. I have no idea what such a beam is for; does it have a load-bearing function?
Promise to submit "Martin Timell home improvement pictures" on the next item! It is quite entertaining to see the creativity that exists in finding shortcuts when "Martin Timell fans" solve problems in their home.