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I'm repairing some rotten floor joists and want to sense check what I'm doing. Do you see anything here that looks obviously problematic?
Mostly the joists are rotten at the ends where they touch/sit in the walls, or where debris under the solum was touching them.
- I've cleared out the solum to minimum 150mm below the joists.
- I've replaced the central carrier beam and it's resting on 2x concrete blocks at one end, 2x in the middle and the internal wall at the other end.
- All joists which touch the walls have DPM and sometimes also slate.
- I've removed the small dwarf wall at the bay window and replaced with concrete blocks directly under the joists wherever best suited to ground level/distances spanned etc.
Am I missing anything?
Mostly the joists are rotten at the ends where they touch/sit in the walls, or where debris under the solum was touching them.
- I've cleared out the solum to minimum 150mm below the joists.
- I've replaced the central carrier beam and it's resting on 2x concrete blocks at one end, 2x in the middle and the internal wall at the other end.
- All joists which touch the walls have DPM and sometimes also slate.
- I've removed the small dwarf wall at the bay window and replaced with concrete blocks directly under the joists wherever best suited to ground level/distances spanned etc.
Am I missing anything?
