Recent content by gmannix1000

Hi All, I got asked to look at a steel beam to the rear of domestic house with sliding doors below built in 2010 with no issues which supports two stories of floor load above on the inner leaf. It spans approximately 4.8m. It is in the cavity zone with a steel plate welded along the bottom...

Hi All, Wondering if anyone would have some advice on some PT/foundation detailing. We have an insitu ground floor slab and the contractor wishes to go PT. The PT specialist is advising that the ground floor slab should be isolated around columns/walls and a slip membrane should be present...

It's a dwelling but was an old old farmhouse.

Hi All, We're investigating damage on an old 2-3ft thick rubble stone with mortar Gable Wall that was subject to a fast vehicular impact. Based on a visual inspection, lots of cracking which are new sharp unpainted cracks distinguishing it from older cracks and bulging of the lime render away...

There was a wall intended to be tied into this but a door got added here so just a beam overhead meeting the door now.

Hi All, Wondering the best way to fill in unused starter reinforcing packs (connibar or kwikastrip etc.) within a concrete wall? Would it be typically just cut out and grouted up? The zone is carrying a lightly loaded RC beam above. Thanks in advance!

Hi All, Have a 200 thick RC wall up through a six storey building and at ground floor level the contractor messed up the concrete cover. It should have been 25mm each face but at the bottom half of the wall we have 60mm on one face and 45mm on the other face, which is What should typical...

Hi all, We detail groundbeams to stick 50mm above the soffit of the slab, to avoid the beam top layer and slab bottom layer of steel reinforcing clashing. We then pour the groundbeams, and sit the slab bottom mat steel directly onto the groundbeams so the slab rebar has 50mm cover outside the...

Hi All, Question about the stability of a cantilevered truss, if anyone has encountered it before. I have some rooftop trusses, full storey height, in which a hanger column is supported at it's end - see attached. There is another long truss along the perimeter at the cantilevered edge bracing...

Hi CANPRO, Thanks for that. Ideally, I would like to have done this. The lattice girder is in poor condition and many diagonals are missing as it is - 'hanging' the column from this is concerning and preventing the column from dangling or dropping away from the truss is the other concern. I...

The existing columns and lattice girder has no lateral restraint at the moment until the building is in and has been noticed to wobble currently in high winds. Straps are keeping it from swaying at the moment so even if I prop the girder, I still have no rigidity from keeping this thing from...

Hi All, Looking for peoples thoughts on this - I have a line of existing cast iron column needing to be retaining on site but existing crap foundations need to be removed and replaced by new structure. The line of columns only hold a lattice girder, unloaded, just carrying it's own self weight...

I'm not convinced, I don't believe there is anyway of backing up with calculations that the load will be carried back to the center of the pilecap by the beam (less stiff) instead of just strutting into the piles as the pile cap itself is much stiffer...or be able to guarantee if the two front...

Thanks for the input. I also agree that most of the load will shed into the two piles closest to the point load; however, as these piles settles 2mm say, wouldn't the load shed into the centre pile also and then as that settles, load will go into the back two piles accordingly? Provided the...

Hi All, Looking for some advice, have a large pile cap load offset (on the edge of a 5 pile cap)and was thinking about adding a beam back to the pile cap behind this. Once the stirrups go through the pile cap, am I correct in saying this pile cap will still work as intended i.e. concentrically...