Basement Beam

Painting the Beam

We put in the steel beam in the basement over two-and-a-half years ago. Our friend Mike, who got us the steel and helped us put it in, told us at the time that when the weather got warm we should paint it. We didn’t get around to doing that until now. For the record, I don’t […]

Basement Beam

Beam Project: Steel

Friday, Mike went to Suburban Welding and Steel and picked up the three pre-cut beam sections totaling about 45′ and one 20′-long piece of square tube steel to cut into columns. He has a big pickup with a rack on the back, so they were able to lower the steel onto the back with a […]

Basement Beam

Beam Project: Footings

Settle in kids, because this is a long post. First off, I finished leveling the back beam, despite one of the hydraulic jacks slowly losing pressure. I picked up another jack post since the back beam sagged in the middle and I wanted to prop it up with the jack. I also removed the last […]

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