Thread: House Renovation

G'Day doing a renovation and have removed asbestos Villaboard Ceiling and wall sheeting - have a 5.7m 195x75Hardwood ridge roof beam which was spanning 4m but have removed two studs and is now spanning 4.8m - beam has stood for 37years and has a 9mm sag at midpoint. Need to decide if structurally ok at new 4.8m span before gyproc sheeting. Have used Hyne design software which shows a 195x65mm Glulam for the roof loading and span- can anyone tell me if Glulam is equivalent to Hardwood - could replace beam with Glulam but would prefer to leave as is if possible.

Haven't time to look at tables now, but if the Hyne tables show Glulam beam the size you say the the larger size old dried HW will carry that too. Wouldn't be comparable if the HW was green, but at that larger size and age doubt it will be a problem - would have been over-designed in the first place.