I’m knocking down the full width of the rear ground floor of my house. Have a good structural engineer who has done a detailed design which impressed the architect. But he didn’t specify how to knock down the rear wall, which I guess is normal. No need to teach an experienced builder how to suck eggs. At least that’s what I saw until I saw this.
This is a view from upstairs and shows how they have temporary supports coming from the ground up through the first floor and supporting each side of six short RSJs that in turn supports the rear upstairs wall of the house. It is not how I was expecting them to do it, but what do I know. What do you think? Presumably they will add a seventh pair of supports for a seventh RSJ in between the two on the left and middle of the photo so the supports are all more or less equidistant.
Thoughts?