flitch beam - cost of steel plate ?

[sm_jamieson]

Flitch beams 4 metres long. How much would I expect to pay for steel plate 10mm thick x approx

180mm x 4 metres ? Thanks, Simon.

[fred]

In article , sm [e-mail] writes

Yellow pages, Steel Stockholders

"Metal Supermarkets" (a franchise) will be able to give you a price quickly but are unlikely to be cheapest.

[Roger]

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Try your local steel stockist. ISTR stock black mild steel was quite cheap last time I bought a bit.

It is a good bit cheaper to use stock bar rather than getting plate cut to width. There should be something available fairly close to 180 by 10. The stuff I got appears to be 148 by 11 so was probably nominally 150 by

12.

[Tony Bryer]

Check out

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[Set Square]

There seems to be something missing from the table. For each width, it quotes 6 different weights per metre - presumably for different thicknesses - but it doesn't say what the thickness *is*.

[John Rumm]

Just looked at my records and I paid about £430 (inc VAT) for all my steel. However at least £200 of that was nuts, bolts, plate washers, timber connectors, and joist hangers. So the flitch plates could not have been more than £50 each. That was for four plates averaging 4m each, 8mm thick, 200mm high. It included the drilling and painting with passivating paint. More details here:

[sm_jamieson]

John, can you let me know who your supplier was for the steel. Cheers, Simon.

[Pete C]

Hi,

Have a look at

will give some idea of prices.

cheers, Pete.

[John Rumm]

O.I.W. (Steels) Ltd

12 Benfleet Road Hadleigh Essex SS7 1QB

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