Hello all,
First time posting. Apologies if I am posting in the wrong place! I am a little stumped on getting some new joists level/flat with the existing part of my living room floor. A few details to start:
- Suspended timber ground floor
- Replacing four joists on the end of my living room near bay window
- Joists are 47 x 95 mm
- Full span is 3.6 m span (at 400 mm centres).
- a sleeper wall splits the span to two 1.8 m lengths
- will be fitting chipboard then carpet overlay
As I am replacing only a few of the joists in the room, I was intending to re-use the brick pockets and just form a scabbed joint at the sleeper wall. I thought about joist hangers, but I wasn't sure how to get them to match the levels of the joists to remain.
However, after hanging a few, I noticed that the top of the sleeper wall is about 30 mm higher than the brick joist pockets in the main walls---presumably the house has settled over time more than the sleeper wall. Unfortunately, I can't shim up the joist ends as there is not much vertical clearance in the brick pockets (I had to use a mallet to get a joist in).
So my main question: is a mid-floor 'ridge' like this going to be an issue with the chipboard? I thought about making some wooden wedges to flatten the joist tops, but then tying into the existing joists to remain might be a problem... I can try to align a chipboard joint along the crown of the floor?
Thanks loads for your help. This project has been a HUGE learning curve for me. Sorry for the long post!
Evyx
First time posting. Apologies if I am posting in the wrong place! I am a little stumped on getting some new joists level/flat with the existing part of my living room floor. A few details to start:
- Suspended timber ground floor
- Replacing four joists on the end of my living room near bay window
- Joists are 47 x 95 mm
- Full span is 3.6 m span (at 400 mm centres).
- a sleeper wall splits the span to two 1.8 m lengths
- will be fitting chipboard then carpet overlay
As I am replacing only a few of the joists in the room, I was intending to re-use the brick pockets and just form a scabbed joint at the sleeper wall. I thought about joist hangers, but I wasn't sure how to get them to match the levels of the joists to remain.
However, after hanging a few, I noticed that the top of the sleeper wall is about 30 mm higher than the brick joist pockets in the main walls---presumably the house has settled over time more than the sleeper wall. Unfortunately, I can't shim up the joist ends as there is not much vertical clearance in the brick pockets (I had to use a mallet to get a joist in).
So my main question: is a mid-floor 'ridge' like this going to be an issue with the chipboard? I thought about making some wooden wedges to flatten the joist tops, but then tying into the existing joists to remain might be a problem... I can try to align a chipboard joint along the crown of the floor?
Thanks loads for your help. This project has been a HUGE learning curve for me. Sorry for the long post!
Evyx