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I’m not a builder but if you are lucky like we were you can also grout the cavities from above and add rebar. You might have no way if your blocks are set such that they foul the internal openings. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Thanks guys that looks very feasible. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My two bay garage is roughly 21’ wide by 26’ deep. The ceiling is about 8’ high, and has a W8 wide flange beam running side to side (from left to right as you look into the bays). Now, the issue is that when we put a new exercise room on top of the garage (originally designed in the 1950s to...

I have a W8 steel beam running 21’ side to side of my garage. When we built an add-on half story my contractor did calculations and added an lvl that is effectively sistered to the W8. I’d love to have a hoist for small items say garden tractor and below. 1k pounds max? Well I no longer have...