Torstensteffi
2020-05-10 11:29:13
- #1
Good day to everyone first, we are new here and now have a problem with the ceiling or rather the floor in two rooms stacked on top of each other. We wanted to redo the ceiling and found out that the ceiling beams are eaten up by woodworm, so they need to be replaced. The floorboards upstairs were also in bad condition, so the entire ceiling with floor had to be completely exposed. The structural engineer told us to remove the old beams and replace them with glued laminated timber beams of the same thickness, take rafter spacing of 60 cm, and then either tongue-and-groove boards or OSB panels as flooring. So far so good. Now the installers who are supposed to install the glued laminated timber beams say they will not install them because the glued laminated timber beams are too thin and need to be 20 cm in height and 12 cm wide. The previous ones were 16x16 cm as solid wood, now glued laminated timber beams. Distance from wall to wall is 4.70 m, the rooms were previously fully furnished and inhabited. Now I don’t know what to do, the structural engineer told me again that it fits as it is and it is not technically possible to install larger ones.