Have you altered your living space?
I have acrowed the ceiling before knocking down the load bearing dividing wall between the living room and the back room and everythings fine. When can I take away the acrows?
Answers:
ooh, been here. not until youve chopped two holes for your girder to sit on. one goes in the outer wall, the other into the opposite wall, use slate to chock the girder, and use at least a 6x4inch one.
make sure you acrow the ceiling up at least half an inch higher as it needs to settle back at its original height, or your upstairs dorrs wont open! if you dont, when you remove the jacks, the floor wil sag. once the girder has settled gentley and evenly remove the jacks..
that is providing youve checked the way the floor joists run. dont think you can get away with running the RSJ parrallel, your celing will collapse, closely followed by cracking walls and your wife divorcing you. and a very expensive repair bill. youve just removed half the loadbearing wall, so for your own safety be careful. oh and another thing. your roof support MUST be absolutely parallel with the girder, ie alongside it. almost touching. i say this because you havebt mentioned in your question that youve done any of this work.. and i hope for youre sake im wrong, and youve already done it.properly.
good luck and mind your fingers!
well that would depend on what the heck acrow is..
if u removed a load bearing wall i hope u r replacing it either with another wall or with a good hefty beam.. even if it seems ok now, everything above that missing wall will likely begin to sag and will sooner or later do serious damage to your home if you don't fix things properly.
you can take away the acro's once you've got a good rsj lintel in place to take the place of the supporting wall, once thats done the job is as good as done and you can then get on with whatever you plan to do
yes , the warden let me put up some nice net curtains
sorry misunderstood your question Yes I have alway altered my living space but never understood wat acrows are. Change your mind, and the place will change with you.
'acrow'? Edit your question please.
Shortly before the ceiling falls in.?!?
Seriously - once your new support beam is in place, and only then, can you remove the temporary supports.
For all those who answer questions they don't understand: 'Acrow' is the tall pole with a flat end either end that stands in the gap where your supporting wall used to be to do the job of supporting the building above it - otherwise the whole building could collapse.
To answer your question - you can't take them away until you have - as others have rightly informed you, replaced the support. Once you have done that - and got it properly checked by a building inspector - you can remove them. If you don't you are very possibly in danger of not only losing your wife, but your own life too.
Acrow's are normally placed, in demolition like you describe, with a supporting timber between a pair of them, going through previously knocked through holes in the wall.
This way you have access to the underside of the remaining upper wall to enable you to install a suitable strength member (RSJ or appropriate approved lintel) between the pairs of Acrows as your wall is removed. Packing up the lintel with slate is a established way to level up and secure. Once you have a stable cross member in place, and set, you can then take your Acrows down.
However, if you've put the Acrows directly onto the load bearing wall (no cross timber) then you have a problem because you wont be able to take them away in order to fir your lintel in thefirst place !!
Work such as described requires compliance with building regs, suitable fire protection for the girder, and inspection from your local authority buildings control.
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Answers:
ooh, been here. not until youve chopped two holes for your girder to sit on. one goes in the outer wall, the other into the opposite wall, use slate to chock the girder, and use at least a 6x4inch one.
make sure you acrow the ceiling up at least half an inch higher as it needs to settle back at its original height, or your upstairs dorrs wont open! if you dont, when you remove the jacks, the floor wil sag. once the girder has settled gentley and evenly remove the jacks..
that is providing youve checked the way the floor joists run. dont think you can get away with running the RSJ parrallel, your celing will collapse, closely followed by cracking walls and your wife divorcing you. and a very expensive repair bill. youve just removed half the loadbearing wall, so for your own safety be careful. oh and another thing. your roof support MUST be absolutely parallel with the girder, ie alongside it. almost touching. i say this because you havebt mentioned in your question that youve done any of this work.. and i hope for youre sake im wrong, and youve already done it.properly.
good luck and mind your fingers!
well that would depend on what the heck acrow is..
if u removed a load bearing wall i hope u r replacing it either with another wall or with a good hefty beam.. even if it seems ok now, everything above that missing wall will likely begin to sag and will sooner or later do serious damage to your home if you don't fix things properly.
you can take away the acro's once you've got a good rsj lintel in place to take the place of the supporting wall, once thats done the job is as good as done and you can then get on with whatever you plan to do
yes , the warden let me put up some nice net curtains
sorry misunderstood your question Yes I have alway altered my living space but never understood wat acrows are. Change your mind, and the place will change with you.
'acrow'? Edit your question please.
Shortly before the ceiling falls in.?!?
Seriously - once your new support beam is in place, and only then, can you remove the temporary supports.
For all those who answer questions they don't understand: 'Acrow' is the tall pole with a flat end either end that stands in the gap where your supporting wall used to be to do the job of supporting the building above it - otherwise the whole building could collapse.
To answer your question - you can't take them away until you have - as others have rightly informed you, replaced the support. Once you have done that - and got it properly checked by a building inspector - you can remove them. If you don't you are very possibly in danger of not only losing your wife, but your own life too.
Acrow's are normally placed, in demolition like you describe, with a supporting timber between a pair of them, going through previously knocked through holes in the wall.
This way you have access to the underside of the remaining upper wall to enable you to install a suitable strength member (RSJ or appropriate approved lintel) between the pairs of Acrows as your wall is removed. Packing up the lintel with slate is a established way to level up and secure. Once you have a stable cross member in place, and set, you can then take your Acrows down.
However, if you've put the Acrows directly onto the load bearing wall (no cross timber) then you have a problem because you wont be able to take them away in order to fir your lintel in thefirst place !!
Work such as described requires compliance with building regs, suitable fire protection for the girder, and inspection from your local authority buildings control.
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