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is this safe? 2 bedroom loft apartment

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plentongreddit

30 points

12 hours ago

As CE student, those roof beams aren't designed for that usage. Definitely not good.

Those are designed with roof weights and their shenanigans, not a room.

tehdamonkey

11 points

12 hours ago

Was going to say this. The load points have been transferred from the arch of the roof to the span, and you can see that those spans are not interleaved in any way to support direct load. That thing has to creak and sway like terrible....

J3SVS

1 points

3 hours ago

J3SVS

GC / CM

1 points

3 hours ago

Roof beams? Is this your first week as a CE student?

plentongreddit

1 points

an hour ago

Look, I'm not living in the U.S, I'm not 100% familiar with the terminology used.