Hi all,
I want to knock through an internal wall to make a new doorway, and (ideally) what I'm looking for is a ready made doorframe or door/frame unit which will support 3 floor beams above it.
The reason for this is that I haven't got a wall on one side to sit a cross-beam on. I have considered making a filtch beam which can cantilever over the doorframe and support the beams above, however, I still feel that there may be some slight movement or creaking. I have done a (fixed width font) ascii drawing below, to illustrate the problem. As you can see, there is no means of support on the left hand side. (The left hand side is actually the void where a self-supported staircase stands).
3 floor beams... || || || || || || single brick wall _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_ ________________ |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_ | | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_ | | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_ | top of | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_ | door | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_ | | |_|_|__|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_ | | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_Any advice or suppliers info would be greatly appreciated!
Regards,
H.