floor joists

I am in the planning stages of a bathroom refurb and have come across my first major hurdle. There is a gap under the bath where the angled ceiling is on the stairs, image attached. This is exactly where I'm wanting the shower to go and unfortunately there are some angled joists projecting...

Hello, hoping someone can help please. I saw on another forum (old thread therefore not getting a response) about the following regarding floor joists in a loft conversion - “I gain 4 inches of head height by using the existing 4 inch floor joists (instead of new 8 inch joists as is the normal...

Hi, I am new to this forum and would be grateful for some advice. I am undertaking a full restoration of an 18th C stone cottage and would like advice on strengthening an area of existing floor. The floor is First Floor covering 25m2 with hallway below and landing/bedroom above. Due to...

Hi all, I've just stumbled across this forum and am hoping someone will be able to shed light on the issue in my home. Whilst buying my house, we noticed the floors seemed uneven. I paid for a full structural report via the bank and asked specifically for this to be inspected. When I called...

Hi, We are renovating our house - its currently been gutted and we are thinking of putting Wet Underfloor heating in the whole house and currently weighing up the options. The ground floor will definitely be UFH (concrete floor so will be 100mm celotex + pipes + screed + flooring.) and we are...

So after a long weekend of removing my chimney from the attic and 1st floor I’m stuck! It looks like the 1st floor joists are sitting on timbers that are resting on the chimney. Whats the best way to tackle this? This is a bedroom that is going to be repurposed into a bathroom. Structural...

Found three rotten floor joists in the hall way when fitting a new radiator. I have sawn them out and they were just sat on and in the internal wall over a sleeper wall and then onto the inner leaf of the cavity wall be the doorway. I've cut and laid in 3 new treated joists onto of the...

Hey all. I'm in the process of tearing down part of my building that was not on a slab, I'm not looking to spend a fortune to pour a new slab so my plan is to just pour footings and put a floor on them. My question is how many footings will I need under the floor? About all I definitely know is...

I have my chimney breast removed upstairs and supported in the loft but am now looking to remove the section downstairs as well, and am looking for clarity on what to do with the ground floor ceiling / first storey floor joists with regards to making sure they're properly supported. I don't...

Currently contemplating bathroom refurbishment and have taken a look under the bath. There has been a fair bit of water leaking round the perimeter due to poor sealing, probably for some time, as you can see below! Top bit of the joists looks a bit rotten, though the bulk of it still seems...

Hi, I'm refurbing the galley kitchen in our Victorian terrace (solid brick walls, no cavity). Three of ceiling joists (which are the floor joists of the bathroom above) need replacing completely (they can't be sistered) but are pocketed into the brick walls on both sides. One of those walls is...

Hi all. We are having an double extension and the architect has stipulated that the floor joists need to be 63 x 170mm C24. The length will be just over 4m. Spaced at 400mm over a 10m space. I am really struggling to find this specific size of timber anywhere. I have been looking at the option...

I'm building a 4.8m x 2.8m (ideally) garden room and need some advice on the base / subfloor and possibility of overhang on the floor joists. As you can see in the image, I've got a concrete slab (not insulated) that I was going to sit the 3x2 treated joists directly on with DPC underneath each...

Hi, I would like to lay a new floor covering in the first floor bedroom in our victorian terrace. The problem is that the floor joists (120mm x 60mm) are at 800mm centres with no noggins, spanning roughly 3.4m. Ideally I would make the structure better in order to accommodate a standard 18mm...

Hi Not sure if this is the place to ask. I am trying work out the difference in price between a suspended floor and block and beam. It's for an area just over 30m square. The reason being: we are having an extension built and the builders persuaded us to go with a suspended floor rather than...

Hi All Some advice would be appreciated. We are doing a full refurbish on our house at the moment, fitting underfloor heating throughout amongst a lot of other work. All the stud walls and rotten chipboard floors have been removed on the first floor in preparation for the new layout. The new...

Hi, I've searched the forums but cannot find an answer to this specific question. I have a 1960s bungalow that I'm refurbishing. Ground floor was: Ash solum on earth, sealed (badly) with bitumen. Suspended floor joists with tongue and groove timber flooring (void below floor is ventilated). I...

Hi, I recently had a chimney breast removed and floor joists replaced/extended. They only plastered the wall (since I planned on skimming the whole house myself). It's been a week since it was completed, the buildings inspector passed the work. However, I'm starting to see some splits in the...