this house is not going to break me

[davidbrac]

When l am renovating each room l lift the floorboards that have been lifted before have a look and re fix the board with screws. The guys working on the house before were not good at lifting boards (read butchers) and l have found a few plumbing and electrical issues that l have fixed whilst going through this process but this one threw me.

The original joist was 6" * 3" and had been cut and badly repaired So after a think l realised l had a 6.5 inch * 2" joist and there was a supporting wall halfway across the dinning room floor. There was also a trap lifted the other side of the support floor. So l went down the gap knocked a hole through. Manoeuvred the joist in place by bringing it in through the window through the trap and through the supporting wall, and bolted it to the existing joist. Just need to pop back under the boards today and rebuild the support wall so there is a decent pad for the joist to sit on.

 

[plasticpigeon]

That's a good mantra.

 

[Zebra]

Oh my word well done for doing that, I can't imagine it was easy getting down there, the gap underneath doesn't look very big. The bits of batten screwed onto the side of the joist is very common to resupport a floorboard that's been cut off the centre of the joist, but why do you suppose the joist had been cut right through? There's a whole chunk missing from it, by the looks of things, about a centimetre or so. Had it just been built like that?

 

[davidbrac]

Oh my word well done for doing that, I can't imagine it was easy getting down there, the gap underneath doesn't look very big. The bits of batten screwed onto the side of the joist is very common to resupport a floorboard that's been cut off the centre of the joist, but why do you suppose the joist had been cut right through? There's a whole chunk missing from it, by the looks of things, about a centimetre or so. Had it just been built like that?

It looks as if there was some rot in the original joist, but that looks as if it was solved when a new (concrete) floor was put in the kitchen next to it. The whole area is bone dry. Previous people had made openings to get a layer of DP membrane on the ground, so l looked under it whilst under there. It is all bone dry and dusty and seeing there is good airflow over the top of the membrane l just left it there.