Hey.
The Mother-in-law (again) is after a new bathroom suite complete with tiled floor. The bathroom is on the first floor. I'm not sure if its because the joists are too weedy but everytime anyone walks across the floor it rolls and creaks like your on a sodding boat! I swear the shift is something like 15mm in places!
I know there have been similar posts like this here about loft floor strengthening, but I couldn't find owt specifically about other habitable rooms, so sorry for any repeat!
How do i go about strengthening the bathroom floor? I'm thinking it would need to be a case of: strip out the entire bathroom suite, take up the floor boards, replace/sister larger joists to old ones (joist hangers on the outer walls??) and fix 12mm-18mm WBP ply to the joists (without replacing the old boards?) then tile over the top as per the wood floor sticky.
That about right? If so, what size/type of joists would I need to use and would 18mm WBP be overkill?
Thanks muchly.
The Mother-in-law (again) is after a new bathroom suite complete with tiled floor. The bathroom is on the first floor. I'm not sure if its because the joists are too weedy but everytime anyone walks across the floor it rolls and creaks like your on a sodding boat! I swear the shift is something like 15mm in places!
I know there have been similar posts like this here about loft floor strengthening, but I couldn't find owt specifically about other habitable rooms, so sorry for any repeat!
How do i go about strengthening the bathroom floor? I'm thinking it would need to be a case of: strip out the entire bathroom suite, take up the floor boards, replace/sister larger joists to old ones (joist hangers on the outer walls??) and fix 12mm-18mm WBP ply to the joists (without replacing the old boards?) then tile over the top as per the wood floor sticky.
That about right? If so, what size/type of joists would I need to use and would 18mm WBP be overkill?
Thanks muchly.