Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Roof wrote:
So in the spirit of public newsgroups - explain it then "alleged
expert" so we can all learn from your specialist wisdom.....




It isn't 'specialist wisdom', Jim, it's merely an
understanding of structural principle. You don't
need the knowledge; leave it to the people that
know what they're doing with it.

Would that be like the structural engineer who insisted on having
continuous joists from front to back here only supported at the ends?
Requiring timber brought in from miles away - 10 x 4" 30ft long? Until the
local BS insisted they were supported in the middle because of deflection?
And the same structural engineer who supplied three pages of drawings for
padstones?


What was the structural engineers terms of
appointment? Was an architect involved? Why
didn't you tell the structural engineer in the
first place that he could use an intermediate
support if it made the design any easier. Was the
structural engineer chartered? What fee did you
pay him?

More importantly, and to keep it on topic, what
was the advice you got from your 'resident
experts' when you posted the query on this newsgroup?