Hi All
After two years of doing a high end extension we sold the house.
We have moved into what I suppose some would call a war service home or bunglow?
Our lounge is really small and a friend came up with this great idea to knock the wall down (timber stud) and move the kitchen onto the back landing. I have done up a cost for the kitchen cabinets in a flat pack. Plumbing/electrical shouldn't be too bad as you can get under the house to run the plumbing and electricals easily. We have already done that when we did the bathroom.
Can you hear the hubbie screaming!
My question is how hard and expensive would it be to get a carpenter/builder to come in and put a load bearing beam in? It may not need one. Who knows what in the ceiling. Trying to get an idea of price before I approach hubbie.
The length I need to open is approx. 5 metres. Is this likely to cost thousands??
Thoughts??
Thanks
Caz
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Browse Forums Renovation + Home Improvement  15 Mar 2014 114 Newcastle,NSW Senior Member Re: Cost to put a beam in 2Sep 02, 2014 5:28 am Yes it will cost min 2k/ I am intending to span a lounge room of approx 5 meters also. and the engineer has specified a 180 Universal beam. But i am ob so will only be materials. So in your case it will be labour, materials and hire of props supports to roof/ceiling. Design from top down to ground , build from ground up Re: Cost to put a beam in 3Sep 02, 2014 6:44 am I'm not sure how much - but we had an RSJ across the front of our place to take the load. It was part of a job to replace bricks and 2 windows with one big window. It was not an easy job to get it up there - quite heavy - but I believe it was below $2k. My new window - a picture window - no opening - was about 7 metres long and roof to floor. It needed a plinth (?) in the centre for strength. Magnificent outcome - but costly. The glass was perhaps the big cost. But I remember the RSJ was expensive. Re: Cost to put a beam in 4Sep 02, 2014 8:13 pm Hi Wobbly and Saint Mike Thank you both so much for your replies. I sort of thought it would be around that. Not too bad I suppose. I think if I could get that done, flat pack kitchen and get a metre long window supply and installed for 10K I may be able to get hubbie to agree. Thanks heaps. Caz This should not happen, when the timber arrives on site, bent studs should be separated to be cut for noggings and blocks. The studs should never be bad enough to… 4 20439  You need to refer back to the structural engineering footings and slab design for edge beams depth. The depth on reactive clay doesn’t necessarily depend only on bearing… 1 9792 Hi all. I have a drop edge beam down the left side of my house. Across the front the drop edge beam is approx 1m on the left and fade to normal ground level on the right… 0 7044 |
