My brother John came up and helped Chad and I put in this glulam beam. As you can see it is 16" tall and 3 1/8" wide and 18 feet long. It rests on the cinder block frame on the west side of the house and 3 2x4's on the east end. It allows this room to be wide open. The ceiling will be flat. We restitched the roof to the ceiling rafters, cut out the old support and then restitched the ceiling rafters to the new glulam beam. Quite a project!. Many thanks to John!




Stiched ceiling rafters to glulam.

5 supports from the roof to the rafters rather than the 4 before but the 4 are also stiched into the glulam. 9 total supports on each side for the roof now. Chad's great idea.


Used to look like this with the bearing wall support extending below the ceiling about 1 1/2"
Now there will be nothing but ceiling. Nice!