Steel Beam Above Bifold Doors

Bi fold doors are a different story.

Steel beam above bifold doors.

All beams are massive 256x256x73. I beam sliding doors is a company founded on building heavy duty light weight sliding doors for the building industry. In these cases they were packed with oak timbers struts to spread the floor loads correctly across the rsj steel beams. Above the rsj steel beam we dry pack the small gaps up to the first floor support with a semi dry strong 2 1 cement mixture this is compacted into the gaps between the beam and the first floors.

Structural props remain in place to support the steel beam. This support beam was chosen as the wall above the ground floor was a single skin constructed of solid break and the span of the beam was 4m. Builder done good job cutting them to maintain brick line. Spec of 203 x 203 x 46 universal beam ub.

We pride ourselves in supplying doors to fit your needs and are determined to stay in the lead of technology for sliding door systems. To this end we recommend a heavy duty or even a rolled steel lintel above a bi fold door to ensure that there is absolutely no. Some of the beams were supporting existing timber floors. Because of how a bi fold door opens and shuts even the slightest deflection in the lintel above can render the door unusable because it simply won t slide open or shut.

On the outside it is covered with bricks.