MC-2415 · Construction · Hertfordshire
Load-bearing wall removal and steel installation
Two rooms combined by removing a load-bearing spine wall, with padstones, temporary works and making good.
- Programme
- 3 weeks
- Property
- 1930s semi-detached
- Engineer
- Calculations supplied
- Fire rating
- Encased to spec
The brief
A 1930s semi where the owners wanted the front and rear reception rooms combined. A previous quotation had omitted temporary works and made no allowance for the services buried in the wall.
Our approach
We priced the job from the engineer's calculations including designed propping, padstone bearings and the diversion of two circuits and a gas run found during opening up. The opening was formed in a single day with the props designed for the actual loading rather than assumed.
Outcome
Opening formed, beam encased to the required fire rating and the room fully made good and decorated within three weeks.
Scope of works
- Designed temporary propping
- Steel beam and padstone installation
- Services diversion
- Fire protection to beam
- Plastering and making good
- Decoration to both rooms
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