Hangers

[joanie]

Does anybody know whether there is such a thing as a T-shaped wall hanger?

My front and back walls are thicker and stronger than an off-centre wall that I want to use as additional support. With conventional hangers, this 'central' wall will become a main support. (Not happy.) What would be ideal is a long metal sleeve joining two joist ends and making them into one beam front and back, with a fixing that straddles the 'central' wall. I reckon that would place the main stress on the front and back walls. Apparently, there is no beam long enough to span front and back. The main roof truss does this, but no one would walk on it so it is not likely to get worn through by the central wall.

Any ideas?

 

[tony1851]

Assuming the beams were timber, that would not work. In fact it wouldn't work whatever the beams were made of.
(Can't quite understand what you're after but is this a loft conversion in which you have a non-loadbearing partition in the middle and are trying to span front-to-back?).

 

[joanie]

Sort of. The non-load-bearing partition supports joists on the ground-floor ceiling, but, above that, it was never designed to!

Yes, I'm trying to span front to back.