Hi, hope someone can point me in the right direciton. I am going to have a large balcony built (4m along side of house x 3m sticking out) with 2 brick pillars holding up the outer 2 corners and a beam and block floor. I am trying to size the beam that will sit across the 2 brick pillars to support one side of the balcony floor (the other side supported by the existing house wall).
This should be a basic calculation, but I am struggling to find any websites / books / downloadable tables where I can input my criteria and get a beam size out. Also, I need to find out what allowances would need to be made for things such as snow loading for example (not that we get much snow in Lincolnshire!). Any good reference books or sites would be much appreciated. I hope to do the works under a building notice but obviously will still have to supply my calcs to the building regs officer. Many thanks for any light you can shed on this for me.