I'd like to replace the entire beam, but that will be considerable work and may cause additional damage leaving the ceiling joists unsupported. To add one on the second side I would have to completely remove half of my suspended ceiling, shortening all the tiles and the supports. Then adding an additional 2 X 10 along one side only. What I am thinking of doing is jacking up the beam to remove the sag plus maybe a little bit more. The ceiling joists are all 2 X 8's spanning half the width of the room with an overlap above this beam. Not tons of weight, but some weight nonetheless. There is a storage area above that part of the ceiling where we keep christmas decorations mostlty along with a few other odds and ends. When I measured it it was saging about 1-1/2" in the center. It was then that I noted a sag in the beam. ![]() As we were examining the beam I noted that the center board had also cracked about 3 feet away from the splice in that board. The three splices were all within the center 8 feet of the beam. All three of them had been made up of shorter pieces. They had nailed together a beam made up of 2 X 8's only none of themm were full length. ![]() During the discussion he noted that the beam supporting mny shop ceiling joists was had been spliced together. Since part of my house was made by the same builder we were comparing notes. He was telling me about some of the poor quality workmanship he had found during the demolition. We got to talking about the remodeling job he is in the middle of. Last night my neighbor stopped over so we could trim up a raised panel door I was helping him with. Well it isn't actually the sky, but my shop ceiling is sagging.
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