I am planning to make a 4" to 6" struc I-beams frame to do the job. the dimensions of the house is 40' by 24' from the inside of my basement. I am trying to make a rectangular frame on the perimeter of the basement, with 2 center beams along the 40' middle of the house, and few i beams at 90 deg to make it square. So basically, Two frames of 2X40' beams and about 5X10' beams. These two frames connected at the 40' length by 5X4' beams.
This frame is going to be used to jack-up the house and additional steel columns are going to be added on to the bottom of the frame to prop up the house (like stilts) on the inside perimeter of the footings.
The house is a one story ranch built in 1955 or so. I plan to lift the house on to these columns premanently, and frame the void between the top of the old basement wall to the new cealing height.
I want to find out how many cloumns would i need under each beam, how far apart they need to be, and how much weight it can hold?
2007-06-01
07:47:21
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