{"id":310,"date":"2016-07-20T15:05:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T23:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2016-07-20T15:05:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T23:05:48","slug":"structural-steel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/20\/structural-steel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Structural Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of our house is wood framed, but there is a bit of structural steel and they installed it today.\u00a0 This would have (or could have) been done earlier, but this was part of the catch-22 we had with the staging area on our lot.\u00a0 We had to get some of the back fill done first both to remove some of the large pile of dirt, and create a space close to the basement hole to allow the crane to get close enough.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-294\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_7607-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7607\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_7607-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_7607-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bottom of this first support post will be embedded in the concrete slab.\u00a0 They will dry pack underneath it with a special concrete mix that won&#8217;t shrink, so it stays well packed underneath the bottom plate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-295\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_7625-1024x930.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7625\" width=\"730\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_7625-1024x930.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_7625-300x272.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_7625-768x697.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-297\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_7631-946x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7631\" width=\"730\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_7631-946x1024.jpg 946w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_7631-277x300.jpg 277w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_7631-768x832.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note the beam saddle (hard to see but near the pineapple cut of the palm) and the black steel on the beam above.\u00a0 That member will eventually rest on a beam, but in the meantime they added a temporary support to hold it up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-296\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_7647-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7647\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_7647-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_7647-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_7647-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That large second story member sits right in the middle of our kitchen \/ family room combination.\u00a0 I&#8217;m guessing that it was required because we wanted that room to be open without a support post in the center, and it is a large span.<\/p>\n<p>In all, they put in about 5,500 lbs of steel.\u00a0 While this might sounds like a lot, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haydenindustrial.com\">my business<\/a> builds things that weight in at around 100,000 lbs, so this steel seems relatively modest by my standards.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-298\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Employees-with-final-cooler-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Employees with final cooler\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Employees-with-final-cooler-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Employees-with-final-cooler-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Employees-with-final-cooler-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of our house is wood framed, but there is a bit of structural steel and they installed it today.\u00a0 This would have (or could have) been done earlier, but this was part of the catch-22 we had with the staging area on our lot.\u00a0 We had to get some of the back fill done<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/20\/structural-steel-2\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more about Structural 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