Who Cares About Girders, What Color’s The Siding?
Again, this is the one that I have seen 100s of times in basements, but would have never guessed was called a Girder. The Girder runs down the middle (at least in our case) of the floor and supports the load above. You can clearly see how the house would probably cave in over time if there wasn’t a large structural beam running across the middle of the floor. The girder is supported by lolly columns that sit on concrete slabs (shown in the picture). The Girder options from Barden Homes were LVL or Steel. The steel option was only available in the Titanium package. Thinking back to the homes I’ve lived in, almost all of the Girders were wood. We went with the LVL option.
