Are you considering making changes to your property’s interior layout? If you are thinking about alterations, a building contractor must resolve certain structural issues before looking at interior design. Load-bearing walls are crucial to the structural integrity of any building. Weakening these walls can lead to them completely collapsing, so ensuring they are well-maintained and supported must be a top priority during any construction project. This is especially true if you wish to remove a load-bearing wall as part of your home improvement work.
EW Construction (Midlands) Ltd provides steel beam installations for house renovations and house extensions in Mansfield and the surrounding areas, ensuring any load-bearing walls are removed and replaced with appropriate supports that are pre-cut to the exact specifications of your build.
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Here is a list of home improvements in which you’ll likely need to remove an interior supporting wall or part of an outer wall:
In many cases, steel beams are ideal for these projects. They are fire-resistant, infestation and mould-free and are widely used in the construction industry due to their durability. Steel, a fully recyclable material with no defects, can also be pre-cut before installation, leaving no debris behind, unlike wood.
Steel beam installations from EW Construction come in various forms to suit the needs of various building projects. Some notable examples include the following:
Box frames consist of vertical steel posts encased in concrete that hold the horizontal beam in place. These structures offer maximum width and can be used to install large bi-fold doors or create one large reception room from two smaller rooms.
Typically used in our Mansfield house extension projects, steel goal posts need strong foundations for support. Given that these are part of the renovations anyway, using the goal post method makes sense.
These beams, also known as I-Beams, are constructed to the thickness of the wall being removed and rest across solid concrete blocks that spread the weight throughout the remaining masonry to the foundations.
EW Construction’s team of building contractors will accurately calculate the dimensions of any steel beam installations ahead of any home renovations to ensure the most suitable beams are fixed in place. We can do this manually or by crane, depending on the demands of your project and the size of the beams being installed.
