I am building my house and my 1st floor does not have any support
walls for the 2nd floor. The steps from the 1st to 2and floor are from
steel and covered with 1/2" natural stone, the steps are curved the
only sport is at the top and bottom floor farming, my house is 26'
width by 40'and the walls are from 6" hollow block. I would like to
puton the second floor floor frame 2- H beam parallel to the 26'to
frame the stair opening.(the first floor floor frame is ok and not the
question).  What size
of beam should I use and lbs for 26? span? (Please give me options of
sizing with 8", 10", and 12" depth.)
note:the second floor floor is framed with 14"jx12 c joeist, 3/4
plywood ,3/4 oke .On the second floor i have 3 bedrooms and 2 bath.

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Request for Question Clarification by redhoss-ga on 01 May 2006 05:53 PDT

I could probably help you, but there are several things I don't
understand. I was waiting for you to respond to redfoxjumps-ga before
I asked my questions. Are you going to answer redfoxjumps-ga's
questions.

the stairs are centered on the longer wall?  

The beam is paralell to the long wall? 

Does the beam span the 40 foot width?

Does the beam span the only the stairs width? 

What is the stairs width?

Was the stairs constructed offsite and trucked in? Is the a catalog
size or webpage for the stairs?

Does the beam support only the stairs? or the whole 2nd floor?

Any guess as to the weight? stairs or 2nd floor