On 19 Dec, 09:12, Lobster wrote:
wrote:
We are having work done on our house and it involves a big and heavy
steel beam to support most of the back of the house. It is probably
about 1000kg and 7m long (300mm x 300mm).

The builder and I are trying to figure out the best/ easiest/ most
cost effective way of getting the beam from the lorry at the front of
the house to the back of the house then up onto the steel columns that
will be supporting it. The beam will be at first floor level (i.e.
approx 2.5m from the ground).

The 64,000 dollar question is what access there is at the back of the
house - without that info nobody is going to be able to give you a
sensible answer.

David

Good question...

The access is pretty good. From the drive I have a pathway at the
side of the house which is around 2.5/3m wide and then out onto lawn
at the back. There is one hurdle (thinking about it now) that the
back garden slopes down from right to left as you look at the house
with an elevated patio in front (approx 2.5m deep - ie from house to
end of patio). On the right the patio is about 10cm higher than the
lawn rising to around 1.5m on the left with a couple of steps taking
up the rise. The middle of the steel beam will be where the 10cm
height different is.

Hope this is clear????

Thanks

Lee.