We Provide Steel Beam Installations In Birmingham
We are affordable structural builders in Birmingham so if you are after a reliable , quality , affordable structural expert to carry out your steel beam installations in Birmingham then you have clicked on the right post .
Keep reading this article and you will find out why steel beam installations are needed for various jobs , how we install steel beams and what you need to know when choosing a quality builder.
Why Steel Beam Installations Are Needed
Steel beam installations are needed for a variety of different jobs the most common being opening up a load bearing wall and lintel repairs .
Opening up load bearing walls or commonly referred to ”wall knock throughs” need a steel beam installation because when the wall is load bearing and once it is removed a beam must be fitted to bear the load which the wall previously was.
Lintel repairs can also require steel beams to be installed because the lintel must be replaced and when this is done it is sometimes a small steel beam that is fitted to be the new lintel .
How We Install Steel Beams
The first step in installing a steel beam would be to structurally support any above loads before we install the steel beam.
For example when it comes to a wall knock through we would have to structurally support the load above the load bearing wall . A lot of times this is floor joists form the above floor.
Another example would be a lintel . In this case the load above that would need to be supported would be the brickwork above .
Almost always we would structurally support the above loads by temporarily installing strong boy supports which would be held up with acrows .
From there we can install the steel beams , sometimes we have to use machinery . In the past with particularly complex jobs we have had to use a crane but for the most part the main machinery we use is a genie lift.
A lot of times we can do this with the manpower of our structural specialist team but sometimes it is necessary to use machinery .
What You Need To Know When Choosing A Quality Builder
The main thing to know when choosing a quality builder is that a specialist is always better than a general builder . That could be for any trade , when getting plumbing done its always best to get a plumber rather than a general builder .
This is no different for structural work , most builders are general builders and even though they say that they can do structural work , reality of it is if they aren’t a verified structural builder they could be just as incompact at structural work as a general builder would be for plumbing .
Leave the plumbing to the plumbers and the structural work for the structural specialists. We are verified structural experts with over three decades of experience .
Click here and you will see we have over fifty , 5 star customer testimonials on the independent Federation of Master Builders website .
Additionally click here and this will take you to our website where you can further verify we are total structural experts because we carry out a large range of structural services . Call us today at 0121 369 0675 for any steel beam installations you need in Birmingham !