I'm building a metal Monitor style barn in North Texas: 36' wide 48' Long 10' Clear . I plan to have the front 24' depth in concrete floor as a Shop (36'w x 24'deep) & the back 24' as barn sand for animals, equip & feed storage.
Here is the "Rub!" I want to have a 2nd floor 'Man Cave' over the center of the front shop area and still have clear span in the first floor. Sooooo...
Front, middle & back walls are the Structural bearing walls, Clear span between front to middle, middle to back.
The center 12' wide middle, or raised Monitor portion will be constructed with 4"x4"x3/16th uprights using 2"x6"x 1/8 steel as 24' beams spanning between front to Middle walls and middle to back wall. This creats the beams to carrie the 2nd floor? Right? Using 2"x6"x1/8" streel as 2nd floor floor joists.
Will this be structuraly sound, right?
Here is the "Rub!" I want to have a 2nd floor 'Man Cave' over the center of the front shop area and still have clear span in the first floor. Sooooo...
Front, middle & back walls are the Structural bearing walls, Clear span between front to middle, middle to back.
The center 12' wide middle, or raised Monitor portion will be constructed with 4"x4"x3/16th uprights using 2"x6"x 1/8 steel as 24' beams spanning between front to Middle walls and middle to back wall. This creats the beams to carrie the 2nd floor? Right? Using 2"x6"x1/8" streel as 2nd floor floor joists.
Will this be structuraly sound, right?