Hey all you nail benders. What is the depth of the typical beam pocket for steel support into the exterior foundation wall. Most of my experience with bearing points and lintels is 8 inches. Is residential less? The steel is W8x13.
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Greetings pete,
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For beam pockets around here they are usually 4"-5" deep. Thats on a typical 8" thick foundation.
Around here (just northeast of you in Illinois) the typical basement walls seem to be 8" thick with a 4" beam pocket.
If we provide steel we generally make it an inch short overall, so the beams have roughly 3 1/2" of bearing. Given the loading that's in most residential beams, that's plenty.
25years in concrete... 1/2 the wall.. for 8" its 4" for 10" its 5" for 12" ( with no footing in this area) its 6" and do not forget to clip the inside upper edge of the steel beam (fire code in this area, so a steel beam will fall out of the pocket if the supports burn out instead of getting hung up in the pocket to kill a firefighter later...) good luck
sorry to not have said this before you can make the pocket out of hard foam blocks ducktaped together and then nail or screw to inside of form panels or wait till the mud sets a little and push them into the wall cavity.. good luck