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Default Remove 13 ft. bearing wall - Beam choices?

Robert Allison wrote:
dpb wrote:

Robert Allison wrote:
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When I do things like this on my own, I always overengineer, because
I cannot properly do the calculations, so I overbuild to compensate.
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If you don't do the calculations, how do you know you're
"over"-engineered?



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I can do the calculations on alot of things, but, from my experience,
anything I design gets downsized if an engineer looks at it. ...


You miss the smiley? Hope not... It was only intended as a joke,
not an aspersion...

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