Full Home Remodeling in Beverly Hills on Engineered Beams
Beverly Hills whole-house remodels with glulam or engineered beams over wide openings, seated on posts, connectors and footings sized by the engineer.
Glued-laminated timber is often the first material we suggest when a Beverly Hills remodel turns two rooms into one. Layers of dried lumber are bonded under pressure, so the beam keeps its shape and resists the slow sag a long sawn timber can develop. The engineer sets its depth, and it rests on posts with steel connectors over sized footings, which keep it seated when the ground shakes.
Choosing the beam
Glulam, laminated veneer lumber and steel can all span a wide opening, and the right one depends on depth and finish. Glulam can be ordered in an appearance grade and left exposed. LVL carries the load in a narrower section and hides well inside a ceiling. A steel flitch or wide-flange beam suits a long span where headroom is tight. Whichever is chosen, the beam is only as good as its ends, so the post caps, column bases and anchors are named on the drawings, and the footing under each post is sized for the weight it carries down.
Hardware that lasts
Steel connectors in a remodel live inside walls and under floors, out of sight for the life of the house. We specify galvanized hardware rated for the treated lumber it touches, since some wood preservatives attack plain steel. New shear walls end in hold-downs, and those, along with the straps across the beam line, get the same coating. Each one is called out on the plans, installed to the maker's nailing schedule and seen by the inspector before insulation and drywall close it in. Getting the small parts right is what lets the large beam do its work.
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Partitions without load can be removed once the wiring and plumbing in them are rerouted. Bearing walls can go as well when a beam takes over their work, which the engineer sizes along with posts and footings. We read the attic framing and the crawlspace to tell the two kinds apart before a plan is drawn.
During, with the timing set early. Floors and lower walls are open after demolition, so sill bolts, crawlspace wall bracing and shear wall hardware go in then and the inspector sees them before anything is closed over. The written quote prices that work separately from the finishes, which lets you weigh it by itself.
We start at the footings and the sill, then check the crawlspace walls, the floor joists and the girders that carry them, and finish in the attic with rafters and ceiling joists. The result tells the designer which walls bear load, what has rotted or cracked, and what the seismic work would add.
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