I need to frame in around a beam in my basement for drywalling. I want
to connect a wood 2x6 to the steel beam running down my middle of the
basement.

Can I glue it and will the glue hold? Drill a hole in the beam does
not sound safe. I cannot be the only one who needs to do this but a
google search did not return anything.

Any one out there know an easy solution?

Joe

wrote:

Drill it and bolt it in.



I need to frame in around a beam in my basement for drywalling. I want
to connect a wood 2x6 to the steel beam running down my middle of the
basement.

Can I glue it and will the glue hold? Drill a hole in the beam does
not sound safe. I cannot be the only one who needs to do this but a
google search did not return anything.

Any one out there know an easy solution?

Joe

On Aug 19, 2:38 pm, wrote:
I need to frame in around a beam in my basement for drywalling. I want
to connect a wood 2x6 to the steel beam running down my middle of the
basement.

Can I glue it and will the glue hold? Drill a hole in the beam does
not sound safe.

The greatest stress on an I beam is the bending force on the vertical
web. Drilling a few modest holes in the horizontal plate at the bottom
(presumably where the 2 x 6 will be attached) will have little effect
on the beam. Intuitively, 3/8" holes spaced 4' apart ought to do the
job. Others may have a better idea.

Joe

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:38:31 -0700, wrote:

Any one out there know an easy solution?

Authentic Looking False Beams? Faux Timber?

Click the gray picture on the right side to enlarge it.

http://www.onthehouse.com/wp/19930816


...2 cents..

--
Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens constantly."

mount the wood to the beam with self drilling metal screws.


steve


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I need to frame in around a beam in my basement for drywalling. I want
to connect a wood 2x6 to the steel beam running down my middle of the
basement.

Can I glue it and will the glue hold? Drill a hole in the beam does
not sound safe. I cannot be the only one who needs to do this but a
google search did not return anything.

Any one out there know an easy solution?

Joe

On Aug 19, 3:38 pm, wrote:
I need to frame in around a beam in my basement for drywalling. I want
to connect a wood 2x6 to the steel beam running down my middle of the
basement.

Can I glue it and will the glue hold? Drill a hole in the beam does
not sound safe. I cannot be the only one who needs to do this but a
google search did not return anything.

Any one out there know an easy solution?

Why do you have to attach to the beam at all? Use steel studs, track
and/or channel to box out around the beam. Essentially you're
making two ladders out of steel studs and hanging them from the
ceiling joists on either side of the beam. The drywall bottom will
hang just a little lower than the bottom of the beam so there will be
little impact on headroom.

R

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:37:43 -0700, RicodJour
wrote:

On Aug 19, 3:38 pm, wrote:
I need to frame in around a beam in my basement for drywalling. I want
to connect a wood 2x6 to the steel beam running down my middle of the
basement.

Can I glue it and will the glue hold? Drill a hole in the beam does
not sound safe. I cannot be the only one who needs to do this but a
google search did not return anything.

Any one out there know an easy solution?

Why do you have to attach to the beam at all? Use steel studs, track
and/or channel to box out around the beam. Essentially you're
making two ladders out of steel studs and hanging them from the
ceiling joists on either side of the beam. The drywall bottom will
hang just a little lower than the bottom of the beam so there will be
little impact on headroom.

R

Even 2x2 wood material for the *ladders*.

I agree to avoid the beam by going around it.

--
Oren

...through the use of electrical or duct tape, achieve the configuration in the photo..

On Aug 19, 2:38 pm, wrote:
I need to frame in around a beam in my basement for drywalling. I want
to connect a wood 2x6 to the steel beam running down my middle of the
basement.

Can I glue it and will the glue hold? Drill a hole in the beam does
not sound safe. I cannot be the only one who needs to do this but a
google search did not return anything.

Any one out there know an easy solution?

Joe

Also asking...

Why attach to beam, just hang your box down from the floor joists.

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I need to frame in around a beam in my basement for drywalling. I want
to connect a wood 2x6 to the steel beam running down my middle of the
basement.

Can I glue it and will the glue hold? Drill a hole in the beam does
not sound safe. I cannot be the only one who needs to do this but a
google search did not return anything.

Any one out there know an easy solution?

Joe

Joe, I had a large beam going down the middle of my finished basement. I
glued a 1x8 to the bottom and fitted fluorescent lighting (single tube) into
each side of the web. I also lined the insides of the beam with 3/8
sheetrock and painted it a bright white for maximum lighting. To the edges
of the glued 1x8 I attached upward sloping wings so the lighting became
indirect and the tubes could not be seen. After all the above, much trim
work was applied to match the crown molding in the rest of the basement and
house. Got lots of complements.

Ivan Vegvary

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:07:08 -0700, RickH
wrote:

Also asking...

Why attach to beam, just hang your box down from the floor joists.


A good time too run any wires across the room :-/

--
Oren

...through the use of electrical or duct tape, achieve the configuration in the photo..

wrote:

I need to frame in around a beam in my basement for drywalling. I want
to connect a wood 2x6 to the steel beam running down my middle of the
basement.

Can I glue it and will the glue hold? Drill a hole in the beam does
not sound safe. I cannot be the only one who needs to do this but a
google search did not return anything.

Any one out there know an easy solution?

Joe

A good powder actuated nail gun (like a Hilti which you can rent at
Depot) will readily secure your lumber to a steel beam. You will need
earplugs / muffs though, while the Hilti guns are very quiet shooting
wood and concrete, in steel they make quite a clang.

wrote in message
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I need to frame in around a beam in my basement for drywalling. I want
to connect a wood 2x6 to the steel beam running down my middle of the
basement.

Can I glue it and will the glue hold? Drill a hole in the beam does
not sound safe. I cannot be the only one who needs to do this but a
google search did not return anything.

Any one out there know an easy solution?

Joe


Why even use wood? Use clips. http://www.theclaw.net/

on 8/19/2007 3:38 PM said the following:
I need to frame in around a beam in my basement for drywalling. I want
to connect a wood 2x6 to the steel beam running down my middle of the
basement.

Can I glue it and will the glue hold? Drill a hole in the beam does
not sound safe. I cannot be the only one who needs to do this but a
google search did not return anything.

Any one out there know an easy solution?

Joe

How about you glue a 2 x in the web of the I-beam on both sides. The 2 x
should be almost as tall as the web and rest on the inside bottom of the
beam. Glue wood spacers behind the 2 x so that the face of the 2 x
filler is exactly flush with the width of the beam.
Glue, screw, or nail the sheetrock to the 2 x from ceiling to the base
of the beam. Glue a piece of sheetrock to the base of the beam. Use
corner bead on the joints using a corner bead crimper since you won't be
able to get a screw or nail into the bottom edge of the bead due to the
steel, or;
Using the same 2 x filler as mentioned before, build a 1 x wood box
around the beam, gluing, nailing, or screwing the 1 x sides to the 2 x
filler and then butt nail the bottom 1 x to the side 1 x's. Sheetrock
the box, or stain it..



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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
To email, remove the double zeroes after @

on 8/19/2007 10:14 PM willshak said the following:
on 8/19/2007 3:38 PM said the following:
I need to frame in around a beam in my basement for drywalling. I want
to connect a wood 2x6 to the steel beam running down my middle of the
basement.

Can I glue it and will the glue hold? Drill a hole in the beam does
not sound safe. I cannot be the only one who needs to do this but a
google search did not return anything.

Any one out there know an easy solution?

Joe

How about you glue a 2 x in the web of the I-beam on both sides. The 2
x should be almost as tall as the web and rest on the inside bottom of
the beam. Glue wood spacers behind the 2 x so that the face of the 2 x
filler is exactly flush with the width of the beam.
Glue, screw, or nail the sheetrock to the 2 x from ceiling to the base
of the beam. Glue a piece of sheetrock to the base of the beam. Use
corner bead on the joints using a corner bead crimper since you won't
be able to get a screw or nail into the bottom edge of the bead due
to the steel, or;
Using the same 2 x filler as mentioned before, build a 1 x wood box
around the beam, gluing, nailing, or screwing the 1 x sides to the 2 x
filler and then butt nail the bottom 1 x to the side 1 x's. Sheetrock
the box, or stain it..

I didn't use a thousand words, but this might be worth the many I did write.
http://www.willshak.com/temp/



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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
To email, remove the double zeroes after @

Joe wrote:

The greatest stress on an I beam is the bending force on the vertical
web. Drilling a few modest holes in the horizontal plate at the bottom
(presumably where the 2 x 6 will be attached) will have little effect
on the beam.

This is incorrect. The greatest sress on an I-beam is in the top and
bottom plates. (Compression for the top, tension for the bottom.)

The vertical web is there simply to keep the plates apart from each other.

The safest place to drill holes in an I-beam is right in the middle of
the vertical plate, a few feet out from the ends. (Take a look at
engineered wood floor joists, and see where they have their cutouts...)

Chris

On Aug 19, 2:38 pm, wrote:
I need to frame in around a beam in my basement for drywalling. I want
to connect a wood 2x6 to the steel beam running down my middle of the
basement.

Can I glue it and will the glue hold? Drill a hole in the beam does
not sound safe. I cannot be the only one who needs to do this but a
google search did not return anything.

Any one out there know an easy solution?

Joe


If you really have to do it this way then maybe just make yourself
some big "U" bolts out of some threaded rod (or long carriage bolts)
and some perforated steel flat stock. Go around the whole beam,
countersink the nuts in the wood. Using 2x8 instead of 2x6 to
overhang the beam width on each side for the bolts. Flatwasher,
lockwasher, tighten nut. But most people just hang soffit framing
like this from the floor joists on either side of the beam.

On Aug 19, 3:38 pm, wrote:
I need to frame in around a beam in my basement for drywalling. I want
to connect a wood 2x6 to the steel beam running down my middle of the
basement.

Can I glue it and will the glue hold? Drill a hole in the beam does
not sound safe. I cannot be the only one who needs to do this but a
google search did not return anything.

Any one out there know an easy solution?

Joe

Why cover when you can use the beam as an interest point in the room?

Get a textured metal paint - you know, faux bronze or crackled or some
such - paint the beam. Or paint it with a vine stencil.

Or place a really nice artificial plant vine made of silk along the
web. Run a line of the really small bookcase lights facing upwards
along the bottom of the web to add ambient light to the room. Play
with that space - it could be very cool!

Duct Tape............

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Duct Tape............


You obviously are a pro who learned from the Father of Fixin'.

http://redgreen.com/index.cfm?app=cart&a=menu

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I need to frame in around a beam in my basement for drywalling. I want
to connect a wood 2x6 to the steel beam running down my middle of the
basement.

Can I glue it and will the glue hold?

Some construction adhesives (not talking liquid nails) basically say the
joined surface must be destroyed to remove. Go to building supply or the
Borg. Find one you think will work based on what you read on the label.
If you go to the Borg, check aisle with cement too. Think that's where I
saw the one about "destroyed". Call the company and ask them if it will
hold cause I don't know. If in 5 yrs someone mounts a Harley on the wall
it may not.

Drill a hole in the beam does
not sound safe. I cannot be the only one who needs to do this but a
google search did not return anything.

Any one out there know an easy solution?

Joe


Remingtom powder actuated tools will nail 2xX's into concrete and some
steel. Do not recall max steel thickness. Then again, you are still
putting holes in the steel beam.