We have a reinforced poured concrete basement walls. One wall has a window about 4 feet wide by 40 inches tall in it 2 feet from the top of the wall. The wall is a nominal 10 inches thich. There is no steel over the window. Should there be? I am the guy that posted about the Jacuzi support where the Jacuzzi is partially sticking out cantilevered over this window. Engineer came today and looked at the joist issues inside the house but after he left I realized the window was just in a hole. By the way, the outside is brick veneer and there is a steel lentil holding up the brick over the window as there should be but it is not holding up the concrete wall above the window.
Back to the Jacuzi issue from last week:
As far as strengthing the joists, he pointed out that my vision sucked. I had thought and previously posted that I had a cantilevered box and the rim joist was attached to a joist that was part of the main house floor system. Turns out there is a triple joist there parallel to the wall and the perpendicular joists that make up the cantilever sit in joist hangers attached to one of the triple joists. We didn't discuss it but I believe his analysis assumed that the triple were well attached to each other. They are not but they will be before I am done. Even so he thought that there would be too much deflection and I should add a 4th joist or angle iron to the triple joist. He didn't feel it had to go span all the way to the support beams but he thought I should go as far as possible to stiffen it up.