Loft Timber floor questions.

[ibby]

My PD plans have been submited and I am currently waiting on the council.

My Architech has informed me that I will need to have 9x2 Joists installed.

The internal measurement of the rooms are around 4.8 Meters.

If I buy a 6 meter run of 9x2 rimber around 1 meter would be wasted from each 6 meter run!

My house is 7600 meters in Lenght and if the joists are spaced at 40 cm, I would need around 38 Joists which will create the timber floor.

Thats 38 Meters of wood waste!

Can the floor be designed so less wastage happens

All the walls in my property are structual walls built from brick.

 

[ibby]

Can I have the floor split into 3 with the joists hanging off the 9x2s?

 

[ibby]

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• ibby
• 28 Feb 2012
• 1

 

[catlad]

You can use the offcuts for noggins to strengthen the floor.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Or smack your useless architect over the head with them!

 

[ibby]

You can use the offcuts for noggins to strengthen the floor.

I forgot to say, I dont want to loose inches on head height.

thanks guys

 

[ibby]

Or smack your useless architect over the head with them!

I am planning to!

but right now I just want to get everything in motion and not be charged for abh

 

[ibby]

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Jeez ibby your posts are hard to fathom! The thing is all your first posts in the threads you start are a bit crap! So please elaborate a bit more on what it is you are doing.

Anyhoo is this for the loft? What is going to be supporting your roof? Not steels? How do you know your brick walls are structural and can take the additional loading?

Also where do you get 38 joists from? 7600÷400=18

And what does this mean exactly?

Can I have the floor split into 3 with the joists hanging off the 9x2s?

Not sacked that 'architect' yet then?