Piers / Beam

[Joseph Hagarty, CMI]

Does this look right?

[rmccullough]

Steel shims are perfered in Colorado. I would suggest those everywhere. Don't compress with time or heaver load.
Is that a Cinder Block with fill and rebar looks like it.

[Dale Duffy]

Originally Posted by jhagarty

Does this look right?

I would mention it is not correctly built, but if the beam was plumb I wouldn't make a big deal out of it.

Excessive squash blocks.............

Hope all is well in PA. Joe..!!

[Carla Horne]

Joe,
are you questioning the support or the beam, or both?
2x's on the flat glued together? maybe its ok because
there is so many of them.
CJ

[Joseph Hagarty, CMI]

Gluelam beam is fine.

It is the 2x PTL shims with a piece of OSB that I was wondering about.

[gbeaumont]

Hi Joe,

I would be tempted to call out the OSB shim, as we know it has little to no compresive strength, plus in a damp location within a crawl space it will very quickly take on the charictaristics of wet cardboard, that Gluelam will end up with little or no support.

Regards

Gerry

[Carla Horne]

Hi guys,
I do know what a gluelam is, that looks like a homemade beam.
I have never seen a gluelam with glue oozing out like that. ??

[Jeffrey R. Pope]

That would be a "homemade" glue-lam, certainly not something a factory would produce. The OSB shims are the biggest concern (IMHO).

I might mention that the support system is "non-standard" (at least what you have pictured), and suggest they get a "second opinion" from a qualified contractor.

[Kenton H. Shepard, CMI]

Originally Posted by jpope

That would be a "homemade" glue-lam, certainly not something a factory would produce.

I saw some pretty ragged glue lams when they first began making them, and they had dark glue like that.

As Dale said, mention that it's not correctly built, but I wouldn't make a big deal out of it either.