On Jun 22, 3:43*pm, Phil wrote:
On Jun 22, 3:34*pm, jamesgangnc wrote:

What's the distance in the other directions, aka 90 deg from your
beam. *Is it possible to put a smaller steel I beam 90 deg in place of
the column you want to remove?

Interesting thought!

The house is 20 feet wide and the beam is not exactly in the middle.
I'm not at home currently, so I can only estimate that it's 8 feet
from one wall and 12 from the other.

You're suggesting that the column at 4 feet could be replaced by a 20
feet long steel beam?

Thanks,
Phil

Yea, but I was hoping for a shorter distance :-) Oh Well.