RSJ, support post moved, is it safe

[GnuBee]

My mother has an allocated space in a shared garage/carport thing. The opening is 14meters and is supported by 3 RSJs. The roof is tiled and pitched and the walls are single skin brick

At the join between each RSJ there is a 150mm x 150mm metal post from the ground to the join. A neighbour had one of these posts removed and moved closer to one of the supporting walls ( it is now 2.3m from the wall). The join that the post was supporting has a single steel plate bolted to the rear of it to replace the post.

This has caused some concern for a number of reasons. Whilst the neighbour has shared that the builder said "it would be ok"...

How do I find out if this is actually the case?

[Equus]

GnuBee said:

How do I find out if this is actually the case?

You pay an engineer to do some calculations.

[Tom_C76]

Equus said:

GnuBee said:

How do I find out if this is actually the case?

You pay an engineer to do some calculations.

Or report it to Building Control at the district council. They will then require the person that had the alteration done to get the calculations to prove it is safe. (Assuming work was done in the last 24 months, otherwise they're time-barred from acting unless it is clearly dangerous.)

[V8RX7]

Pics ?

But it certainly sounds dubious.

[GnuBee]

Thanks all... It's been escalated to the council who will be sending a surveyor to look at it.