Fitting Floor Joists Into Steel Beam

Long span floor beams.

Fitting floor joists into steel beam.

Cutting joists to fit the steel beam. As illustrated here steel beams with wood filler require top mount or face mount hangers to attach to the triforce open joist. We use hildi dx450 nail guns for this it s extremely easy and quick. Attaching railing post to a 4x8 beam and flush 2x8 joist.

A good solid way of doing this is to shoot fire timber into the web of the steel beam to fill it. Placing wood joists on the bottom flange of a steel beam then packing the space between the joists with 2x8 or similar or 2 fastening a wood member to the flange with bolts at 24 o c. As per those examples below you can use a wood sill plate fix to the steel beam and fix the hangers to that sill plate supporting the joists. The use of top mount hangers can be done in certain conditions.

Attaching 2x6 ceiling joists to steel beam blocking floor framing attaching a new deck to house the correct method how to build a deck the supporting floor joists. Mlb supply a wide range of custom designed steel floor beams for a wide range of structural applications. The wall is being knocked out to extend the existing kitchen and create a kitchen diner on the ground floor and an additional bedroom on the first floor. And fastening the joists to the wood member with joist hangers.

So say your steel web size is 40mm deep and 140mm high i would use timber size 47 x 125 5 x 2 and this would be nailed to the steel web. Spacing the joists out with noggings and the challenges associated installing joists and steels.