If you carve out a little interior foam you get more bearing surface, all the way out to the inside surface of the EPS foam. It's not a seismic area but I would consider it anyway. Of course you would have had to screw a piece of plywood to the interior foam to contain the wet concrete. BrickSaver LLC
Sometimes it gets to be such a PITA dealing with pockets especially with hung floors, I stop the beam short, at the inside of the wall and put a steel column under it to the modified footing.
I always design the beam pockets to approximately no more than 1/2" of the depth of the beam/sill. Clean looking and sometimes the inspectors frown on deep pockets. My thought..
Steve, wondering how the wooden post to adjust the beam height in the pocket was selected? The video shows what looks like a section of PT with the load oriented axially through the block. It seems too simple to just pick up a scrap on site and drop it in. The end bearing dimensional condition for the LVL is dimensionally specified but what technical criteria is used to select the material properties?
Why a beam pocket and not a plate with anchors onthe back to be poured into the wall that you would weld angle iron to that you then would bolt the beam to?
Cutting that block of pressure-treated wood exposes the raw center of the block to termites, potentially. I'd hit it with bora-care. It'll soak right down that end grain and be good forever. And why not put termite shield under that wooden block? BrickSaver LLC
@@camheady235 thanks for those details! I have three steel beams on pressure treated blocks in my current home. The blocks were not treated but they are holding up just fine. I often check for insect penetration and I’ll definitely be inspecting around those blocks more closely in the future. Perhaps Steve will do a few videos on insect control details (or maybe there are some I haven’t seen)… I guess the engineered thermal break would solve this from the beginning… 👍 thanks again!
Your right Steve, what a beautiful view to wake up to everyday. Like the way the carrying beams are pocketed into the ICF
If you carve out a little interior foam you get more bearing surface, all the way out to the inside surface of the EPS foam. It's not a seismic area but I would consider it anyway. Of course you would have had to screw a piece of plywood to the interior foam to contain the wet concrete. BrickSaver LLC
Sometimes it gets to be such a PITA dealing with pockets especially with hung floors, I stop the beam short, at the inside of the wall and put a steel column under it to the modified footing.
I always design the beam pockets to approximately no more than 1/2" of the depth of the beam/sill. Clean looking and sometimes the inspectors frown on deep pockets. My thought..
Steve, wondering how the wooden post to adjust the beam height in the pocket was selected? The video shows what looks like a section of PT with the load oriented axially through the block. It seems too simple to just pick up a scrap on site and drop it in. The end bearing dimensional condition for the LVL is dimensionally specified but what technical criteria is used to select the material properties?
Looks to me to just be a length of pressure-treated post inserted vertically. So yes potentially a piece of scrape.
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Why a beam pocket and not a plate with anchors onthe back to be poured into the wall that you would weld angle iron to that you then would bolt the beam to?
Hi Steve,
Could you, or would you, apply something like a Prosoco to the btm, sides, and end face of the wood beam sitting in the beam pocket?
Or maybe some bora-care (borate-based termiticide, insecticide, fungicide) for about ten cents if you have a gallon handy. BrickSaver LLC
I’m guessing that black of wood is pretty much just as effective as the engineered thermal break under the steel beam you showed recently…?
Cutting that block of pressure-treated wood exposes the raw center of the block to termites, potentially. I'd hit it with bora-care. It'll soak right down that end grain and be good forever. And why not put termite shield under that wooden block? BrickSaver LLC
@@camheady235 thanks for those details!
I have three steel beams on pressure treated blocks in my current home. The blocks were not treated but they are holding up just fine. I often check for insect penetration and I’ll definitely be inspecting around those blocks more closely in the future. Perhaps Steve will do a few videos on insect control details (or maybe there are some I haven’t seen)… I guess the engineered thermal break would solve this from the beginning… 👍 thanks again!