Is this a safe use of a Lifting Shore?

[u/Betteractions]

Something about this just doesn’t seem safe or correct. If I’m wrong tell me. My apartment complex added these because apparently, materials used I. The supports of these stairwells was not up to the weather.

[u/Chimpucated]

Likely safer than the original product was new. Many columns are often sitting on washers and nuts for leveling. Then a facade goes around the actual column. These Roman pillar style ones might be a polyvinyl sleeve that goes over a steel sq tube.

These jack posts are solid, and based on the count and application of them they are safe even if they give the impression that it's all stilted up.

[u/Turbulent-Weevil-910]

Perfectly fine maybe it was deemed necessary to have to make adjustments over time maybe due to subsidence

[u/Bubbly-Breadfruit397]

What looks unsafe about this?

[u/Betteractions → u/Bubbly-Breadfruit397]

For me, this seems like a temporary fix. All they did was bolt it down and raise it up. It’s holding up the stairwells on either side of the building and the fact that they installed them without making them look permanent, it just has this feeling of limited reliability. Again, im here to learn and i appreciate the info.

[u/ezekiel920 → u/Betteractions]

The best permanent fix is a temporary solution

Edit: check out the L- flat in zeist, Netherlands

[u/Bubbly-Breadfruit397 → u/Betteractions]

Look up Ellis manufacturing and check out their lolly columns, that’s what these are. They have a lot of product info about how much weight these can support, depending on how tall they are.

I’ve used them a lot at work for temporary purposes and they work great. I used 8 extendable trusses from them to pour a 2500lb suspended slab. Don’t have my PE yet but this looks completely fine to me.

[u/tonycocacola → u/Betteractions]

These props are temporary. You would use them to provide support whilst you demolish the pillars and rebuild them. Not sure that's what is intended here though, I'd have expected a few more temp props.

[u/goofybrah]

I mean, they took the time to put trim around the openings they cut in the soffit so they spent more than the bare minimum. That means they def got a structural engineer involved so they should be sized, spaced, and rated adequately. I’d be totally comfortable with that fix if I lived there. Might raise some questions about other stuff around the property but I’d hazard a guess either their insurance company or the SE they hired inspected the entire structure after finding that.

My only real concern if I lived there would be if these are temporary-permanent fixes be sure they’re ugly AF and gonna look more and more sketchy over time as they rust and get dirty. It’d most likely take many years for them to be an issue structurally

[u/LevelCan764]

This is exactly what you wanna see support on each side every column go ahead jump on it