Last year, after years of negotiating, the CEO of OnER had finally expropriated a chunk of real estate for the railway. Although not as much as was originally envisioned, it is still suitable to the cause. It is a 13 x 20 part of a 26×20 room. Yeah I wanted the 26×20. It still needed to be framed and insulated as well as have the electrical finished. As it stands right now, the room has been framed, the electrical is partially done and the sheetrock is up.
This came to a stop as I found that I have a sagging main beam in the basement. For some reason as I was building the wall underneath, none of the measurments for the studs were the same. I chalked that up to my bad measuring. Boy, was I wrong. The posts supporting the laminated wooden beam are 10 feet and in between these unadjustable steel posts the beam sags by 3/4″. If I start jacking in the middle, will the unadjustable posts fall out? Will the beam sag as they have been there for 30 years? Do I move the door to the layout room so that I put a post where it is most needed? This also affects my wall as it is completed and drywalled. Do I shim this wall? Where? These are problems I needed to mull over before i do anything else.
