Best way to implement a load bearing post

[arther dailey]

rsj , clad with composite so no rot.

 

[gaz1]

if you want wood double scissor joint

 

[Erie Fred]

For all you "steel posters", how about just timber cladding one of the acrows.

Naw, just paint the steel, and then use a feather to make some fake grain....

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Cut off six or twelve inches, graft in a new bit with wedges ?

Looks like you could graft a lump on the bottom and then bolt some steel plates on the sides of what's there already there maybe?

Can buy timber splice plates if you can't be bothered to make them.

 

[chrismac]

If you could get in I bet you could nearly get away with cutting it flush with the floor level and filling the hole with concrete, stick a plate under it with vertical lugs to bolt it down,

 

[Migmac]

I’d use the dougie fir. When one of my old bosses built his house that’s what he used to support his mezzanine. Absolutely solid. It must be 30 years now and it’s still holding things up with no problems

 

[MysterG]

Cut bottom section off, steel bar up into the timber, then cast a concrete pillar/plinth to fill in the gap.

 

[Pete.]

Just looked up the price of 100mm by 5mm box section, would be more than £100 delivered.

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2-3mm thick would be way strong enough for that as it's all under compression but I would have said that is a fairly reasonable price delivered for a 1-off.

 

[dobbslc]

100x100 fence post? Cheap as chips.

 

[cheb]

I'd be gluing multiple lengths of timber together with 30 minute wood glue.If you can obtain 4square/dressed/planed* all round rather than offsawn or regularised then gluing and screwing it together could look neater.

*It has various names round the UK, all the better for the wood goons to suck their teeth at you if you use the wrong one.

 

[Pete.]

100x100 fence post? Cheap as chips.

2.4m for £14 from Selco

 

[cheb]

It's also available in 310ml gunnable tubes:

30 Minute Polyurethane Wood Glue

This wood glue sets hard in 30 minutes. The product comes with a handy capped nozzle for pointed application. If you need a larger quantity, simply unscrew the cap and apply with a spreader. It works particularly well for carpentry, giving you time for binding and screwing as the glue sets. 30...

www.toolstation.com

 

[dan treg]

why not buy an rsj say of facebook and just put a length of timber on outside edge then paint it

 

[cheb]

Epoxy glue would be suitable too.

 

[GRW]

Just looked up the price of 100mm by 5mm box section, would be more than £100 delivered.

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I've had this "Roundtuit" thought of a "Car Port" type thing as a covered working area in between my block-built workshed & the house (lack of space inside the shed & to take dust/debris out of shed).
My first thought was box steel uprights.
However it's around £100 a post in steel versus more like £15 for a tanalised timber 4" × 4" post.
At that cost difference...

The OP could get a square fence post tanalised to do his job cheapest. Stand the ends in creosote for a day, & it'll see any of us lot out.

 

[dan treg]

I've had this "Roundtuit" thought of a "Car Port" type thing as a covered working area in between my block-built workshed & the house (lack of space inside the shed & to take dust/debris out of shed).
My first thought was box steel uprights.
However it's around £100 a post in steel versus more like £15 for a tanalised timber 4" × 4" post.
At that cost difference...

The OP could get a square fence post tanalised to do his job cheapest. Stand the ends in creosote for a day, & it'll see any of us lot out.

the original was 200 x 130 one post 4 x 4 probably to small or did you mean 2 bolted screwed side by side

 

[GRW]

the original was 200 x 130 one post 4 x 4 probably to small or did you mean 2 bolted screwed side by side

Whatever works tbh

 

[mechman]

if you want wood double scissor joint

Just watched that vid, excellent. I would so easily make a right a$$e of it.

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

200x100...isn't that roughly the size of an oak sleeper...they can be had in 2.4m lengths.

I'd imagine about £40 ish....and it's a lot simpler than trying to repair it.

Once you've filled the cement be sure to put in a barrier between the oak post and the floor.

 

[gaz1]

Just watched that vid, excellent. I would so easily make a right a$$e of it.

if you noticed his post is split and has been made out of a few pieces

so makes it easier as when he cuts it on one side is lower the next cut is higher