I am building a brick garage 6.7 m wide by 9m long and would like to have an internal garage space free of pillars or posts. The garage will be of brick and block construction and insulated. It will have a timber roof joists with clay roof tiles. The upper floor will be in the eaves and used for storage or the granny one day !
Whilst i appreciate it is a long span, any idea What size rsj would I need , each end of the rsj will be sitting on the internal blockwork spanning the 6.5m width of the garage .
I guess I would need two or three of these running the width of the garage ..
Any help would be much appreciated,
Mark
The old rule of thumb 30 years ago was to use a beam of half an inch depth for every foot of span. So yours works out at eleven inch high beam.