Yup, I need a 6" x 4" x 8’ Steel I-Beam. Not sure where to get such an animal. I’m thinking Hector’s is probably all out…
there is a place in Kenmore that sells all that stuff. I got my 30 foot I beam from them. Ill find out the name
OK so we’ve got the 4 inch dimension covered, now about the other two…
:hay:
:lol: So you’re saying you can give a woman the best 10 seconds of her life?
LOL.
“come on guys, it’s the way you use it”
Metal Supermarkets (716) 877-7494 2230 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY
http://www.metalsupermarkets.com/
try giving this place a call.
i see W and H beams under structural steel… is that what you want? :gotme:
yep. theyll have it. Theres one black guy that I used to go there, im not sure if hes there, but he rules. If you pull your car round back he sells it to you like 1/2 price lol…
:tup:
i have been looking for one of those…
i need to jack up my kitchen floor.
i had to use a 4x4 since i could not find an I beam.
Then you want a jack pole, not a beam. :tup:
And you don’t use I-Beams to support compressive loads. An I-beams’ strength is in bending. A 4x4 is actually more appropriate, although a jack-pole is ideal because you can put it in place and slowly (1/4 turn per day?) lift the floor.
The black guy got canned like over a year ago, go figure. I would not go to the supermarket for a beam, they sell by the pound, at an outragous rate, think small stuff only. For future reference, sometimes its better to buy a full legnth than a shorter one. Buffalo steel is a great place to get stuff like that. We get box tubing and stuff there for trailers and snowboard rails that we build for holiday valley. buffalo steel 
i used 2 jack poles supporting teh 4x4.
they framed around my chimney and 4 or so joices are not connected
to the center beam of the house.
so, that section of kitchen floor sunk 4" across 4’
(hold a 4’ level so its level and measeure the gap between floor and level)
an I beam would just look better… 
i did bend my 1st jack post while trying to jack up the house.
it was the cheap, thin wall balck ones you can buy in a box.
i still havce not fixed all my cracked door frames, but most of my doors close
now
i just need to jack it up a little higher, then i’ll fix the plaster/drywall stuff.
I would LOVE to replace my wood cetner beam with an I-beam too…
but i dont have thousands of $$ to waste
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh dur, sorry. Haha I was thinking you were putting the I-Beam in vertically. Haha that makes more sense. 
Funny how houses can actually be reshaped and shit. Kinda boggles the mind when you’re not used to dealing with structural problems. :bloated:
bah… i paid $52k less than my neighbor for a house " as is "
(after the inspector went through that is)
i think i got a fair price, but the neighbors insist i got a great deal…
they dont have to live with a swamp of a garage though.
its built just below grade and all the sills have rotted away
from the knees up, its fine, but the pad is to low and its shit.
ive spent more on my house in the past year or two than i have on all my toys
i did get a town garbage can though, so that makes me happy 
^Well if you’re doing shit yourself like lifting floors so that doors close, I’m guessing you’ll be flipping this house for a decent buck in a year or two or ten?
Alp steel
i wish…
a 2 y/o, a 0 y/o due ~10/24, and grad school
does not mix well with working on the car or house anymore
maybe when i find a real job that pays $$, i’ll trade up the living quarters
^There ya go, in the mean time just keep it standing and let that wonderful thing that happens to houses that doesn’t to cars do its thing. What’s it called? Oh yeah: Appreciation! :tup: