{"id":11535,"date":"2007-04-18T00:06:05","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T00:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=11535"},"modified":"2008-07-28T16:27:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T16:27:28","slug":"replacing-cente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/04\/replacing-cente\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing center beam – jack or no jack?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is there anyone with experience of having their supporting beam replaced, that can comment on there experience or offer opinion on the need to jack the house when supporting the beam?<\/p>

We are having our old, split, rotting oak beam replaced with a steel beam and posts to support our house. My understanding, from every person we got quotes from, was that the process was, jack up the house with supports, remove the old beam then insert the new beam. Remove jacks once new steel beam and posts in place.<\/p>\n

The guy we went with, says we don’t need to jack the house, that he can just remove the beam and then put the new steel beam in. We are very concerned about this though he swears it will not be a problem and he has done countless houses in this manner.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi, Is there anyone with experience of having their supporting beam replaced, that can comment on there experience or offer opinion on the need to jack the house when supporting the beam? We are having our old, split, rotting oak beam replaced with a steel beam and posts to support our house. My understanding, from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-11535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/04\/replacing-cente\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Replacing center beam – jack or no jack?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/04\/replacing-cente\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/04\/replacing-cente\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Brokers","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"anon"}],"creator":["anon"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2007-04-18T00:06:05Z","datePublished":"2007-04-18T00:06:05Z","dateModified":"2008-07-28T16:27:28Z"},"rendered":"