steel bearer plate for a padstone

[windy55]

Hello
Just getting my head round a loft conversion
I'll have to get proper SE calcs. for building control
but a quick question
terraced house 5m wide so i'm thinking 203 x 203 x46uc beams,
rather than putting in padstones which would disturb the walls in the rooms below i understand i can use a steel bearer plate, what size do you recon?
I'd like to get started and chopping out the walls for the steels seems like the first job
Cheers in advance
Windy

 

[r896neo]

i would say talking to the structural engineer is the first job.

 

[^woody^]

10x100x400

 

[steveuk]

woody last time i used steel as a bearer plate the se spec'd 100x10x300 so my advice is talk to the stuc engineer

 

[Shytalkz]

I just did one this evening and speccd 10x100x350