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Yes. There are contractors that specialize in lifting entire houses using steel beams placed under the floor system. Assuming the terrain and drainage allows, your home can be lifted and moved off while a basement is doug and the concrete poured or block laid.
Among our handy steel beam tables you can find standard beams' dimensions and beams' weights, steel hollow sections tables and other steel profiles data.
The "W" in steel I-beam designations refers to wide-flanged beams. Most wide-flanged beams are symmetric about both the vertical and horizontal axes.
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You can purchase steel beams from anywhere from Home Depot to Global Industrial. Global Industrial is the number 1 location for this type of material.
They are called Side Impact Door Beams. They can be made of steel, aluminum, or carbon fiber.
A rivet gun is used to punch steel bolts into steel beams.
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