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Thanks for the help. The whole joist is pretty solid, the only exception is the bit about 100mm from the end, which some has broken away and there is some evidence of wood worm, this is a little soft about 5mm pentration witch small screw driver. The plate is built-in and there is a DPM...

OK here's a couple of better photo's. The main bathroom is directly above above this section. When the ceiling was taken down there was some evidence of water damage and the floor boards seem to have some water marks, but seem pretty solid. The joist on the left is the joist that...

Thanks for the reply. Think I said it was an old leak that has now been fixed, I've done plenty of research, thought I'd written a decent description of the issue, but maybe not:- 1 - Joist end has some wet rot. 2 - While ceiling below is down thought I would treat it (no, not take it out...

Sorry typo, meant to type wet rot. We have a local damp shop that were very helpful and he suggested we treat this (and outside loo that has beetles) with Wykabor, so hopefully a couple of coats of that on all joists will stop it spreading. I've attached a really bad photo below the joist to...

Hi, can't find an answer for this so thought I'd ask if anyone has a best practice. We are renovating a 1930's council house and recently had an extension built. The builder knocked a small hole in the back of the house to find the joist level for the extension. When he did this he found the...