A Major Steel Beam Ended Up Exactly in the Wrong Place

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]This one thing almost derailed this project entirely, and it's this elevator shaft. So, the reason that this was a problem is the original size of the elevator shaft was not compared to the steel plan that the lifting contractor did when he put in his steel after lifting this house. So, the problem was we were supposed to have a piece of steel right in the middle of where our elevator goes. Obviously, that's not going to work. So, what we did is we shifted the elevator shaft about 12 in and we got it to where we may have to show them off camera for a couple of Basically, there's a piece of steel right at the edge here, and there's a piece of steel on the back side of the elevator. We We condensed it a little bit, got a slightly smaller elevator cab, and now it fits just perfectly between the two pieces of steel. And now, we're actually going to have a functioning elevator in here, and we didn't have to modify the steel, save the homeowner a ton of money, save us a bunch of time. It was a small adjustment, required a plan revision, submitted it, got it done, and now we have an elevator shaft built.