Wood Supporting Beams
Built up wood beams 1 where a beam is made up of individual pieces of lumber that are nailed together the individual members shall be 38 mm or greater in thickness and installed on edge.
Wood supporting beams. Framing beams dressed on four sides have smooth surfaces and look elegant there are options of various widths lengths and heights to choose from for a variety of projects. The 2012 irc code calls for a minimum of a 32 o c. Staggered pattern with at least a 3 x 120 nail. Kiln dried options keep their shape and have superb structural strength.
The type of wood that has the overall best strength to cost. Beams of more than one ply must be fastened together with either nails or bolts. If you want to check out the calculator to get an idea of what type of a beam you need to buy click here to go cornell s strength calculator. Find durable beams for residential carpentry industrial and commercial construction and renovation projects.
2 except as permitted in sentence 3 where individual members of a built up beam are butted together to form a joint the joint shall occur over a support. The woodbeam company supplies high quality real wood faux beams across canada. Luckily cornell university has a handy calculator to get an estimate. Each decorative wood beam is made of douglas fir and can be finished or stained to suit your individual project.