This was a 16' header that we recessed between the kitchen and living room in a ranch house. Be sure to check your local code requirements before trying this on your own. Let's Connect! / danielwead / danielwead
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@tomacquilano13045 ай бұрын
Nice work! I'll be installing a 24' two ply 14" LVL next week in our ranch house. Almost identical to this one. Uncharted territory for me. Hope it goes as well as your project. Thanks for posting!
@Loonypapa8 ай бұрын
FYI for anyone coming to this page, on paper a double 2x12, 16 feet long, supporting an attic floor, fails for moment and deflection.
@thelouiebrand5 ай бұрын
I had this done and they used 2 two 2x10’s for a 24’ span. Guess what, my ceiling almost fell down when they removed the jacks. They then ran for the hills and never came back. Now there’s a 3 ply 12” lvl. That’s what it needed but I had no idea. The funny part of the first guys charged me the same as the second ones who did it correctly.
@michaelc9248 Жыл бұрын
3 guys, 2 days...NICE!!
@nevergiveupfitness47102 ай бұрын
Awesome
@samuelrobertson83546 ай бұрын
Great video. I wish this showed a sketch in section. It looks liked there were some diagnol cripples holding up the ridge board. What were those?
@franciscovalenzuela143628 күн бұрын
Great job, but 3 guys three days is pretty long
@311mdub2 жыл бұрын
Is your house on slab or do you have a basement? The sketchy thing about that is if you have a basement and try that you could easily do some Serious damage transferring that load outside the load bearing beam beneath it. I would also personally used hanger straps too, so they hang on the header as well as the side nailed in.. might I ask where you got instruction to do this?
@311mdub2 жыл бұрын
Also, at the end of the header beam, did you add more vertical support for the extra load? I didn’t see but is your new header larger (thickness, not length) than your last? You have to take into consideration you’re adding a substantial amount of weight, you’d have to look at the load capacity of the 2x10 or whatever you used to see if 2 of them nailed together will hold that dead load over a 16’ span..
@neilaxelrod58725 ай бұрын
Did you have a structural engineer size that beam? Seems undersized and not put together correctly. With a double or triple LVL (you used lumber), you would use structural wood screws in offset positions.
@SpiritofaHandyman4 ай бұрын
I would always recommend getting a structural engineer to sign off on a structural beam even for a DIY project
@theofficialgreenkane9645 Жыл бұрын
I lost my bag of marbles in your attic.
@michaeldepow66632 жыл бұрын
How could it take one day to put up temporary walls? Did you grow the lumber? Lol. No but in all seriousness it's a good job.
@conniedavid11253 жыл бұрын
Show what's the finished project?
@SpiritofaHandyman3 жыл бұрын
I don't have a way to show you the finished kitchen, but it is a flush ceiling
@draf85172 жыл бұрын
if i did this without permit would the town find out?
@michaeldepow66632 жыл бұрын
Not it you don't tell them. But when it's time to sell house the buyer could possibly find out. Just say it was like that when you bought it. I just did a job like this and the inspector made me get an engineered drawing and plan. The engineer made us at a flinch plate which was 3/8 solid steel through bolted to 2- 2x12's. The drawing was 1500 and the steel was 650 plus bolts, washers and nuts. Total cost plus my labor was 7500
@Loonypapa8 ай бұрын
If you sold your house and a structural engineer like me was called in to inspect (I'm also a home inspector), I would find this in a heartbeat and make you redo it properly with a permit.
@draf85178 ай бұрын
@@Loonypapa how would you know if it was original or new though?
@Loonypapa7 ай бұрын
@@draf8517 The span would tell me if it was prescriptive or not. The floor plan would tell a story about whether it was original, either from my library of floor plans or a knock on a neighbor's door who lived in the same model house in the neighborhood. A phone call to the building department would tell me if there was ever a permit pulled.
@Rexmorgan6876 ай бұрын
@@Loonypapa you know how a someone is an engineer? They will tell you they are one lol. From a fellow civil (transportation focus) engineer. I had the same thought looking at this particular modification...