Prepping a steel beam to shore up floor joists
Channel: Grass Creek Farm @ Turtle Lake
Date: 2024-03-23

Its a W8x18, 23 feet long. There is a continuous weld bead of 6011 rod on the bottom side of each plate where it attaches to the beam.
I've tried all kinds of things to eliminate the deflection in the 2nd floor joists - sistering, metal cross strapping, even put a couple of C channels in there - nothing took away the feeling. Without the intermediate beam I was pushing the limit of what span the joists could handle. I finally decided to put in a beam and I'll live with the exposed column that'll support one end of the beam (the other is in a wall).