Moving/removing column from verandah

Hi Guys,

Looking for some advise.

We are adding an outdoor room to a property. It will be freestanding, abutting an existing verandah. The existing verandah has a post in the centre of where the front of the room will be, which will have double glass sliding doors across the front. Obviously, we want to move or remove this post.

Attached is a picture.

http://i1238.photobucket.com/albums/...128Large-1.jpg
The existing beam is a 200 x 45.

We would like to replace the beam with a lower profile (ie smaller depth) beam as it is lower than the head height of a standard sliding door (2143 h).

Obviously with the column in the middle we would preferably like to move it to one side and add another column to break the span. The opening is 5m approximately.

If we move that column to the left and add another column on the right the span will be approximately 4m.

Any suggestions?


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