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I'm sure there are several answers to this same question so appreciate the help.
We have a 'bouncy' floor in one room, we knew this when we bought the property and ultimately was caused by a bad damp problem and partially rotted joists, which we now have the time and money to replace.
The room is about 4mx3m and the joists runs long ways.
They are currently located directly into the stone, which is typically Victorian rubbish on the inside! There is no support beam part way across etc.
We will be replacing around 50% of these at least and have had different opinions on fixing and general solutions of. These are:
Cuts out, enlarge hole use a little damp proof membrane around end of joist and wiggle into place, the overlap by my rough calculation would be a bout 2 inches at each end does not seem enough?
Use wall hangers, tricky as stone is not the easiest and made up of lots of smaller pieces not big lumps.
Add a wooden batton using 6x2 at each end and runs new joists using modern hangers, quite like this idea and seems quite simple but massive weight in the fixings.
Use option one but also add a beam half way through for extra support, not convinced needed.
All opinions welcome thank you
We have a 'bouncy' floor in one room, we knew this when we bought the property and ultimately was caused by a bad damp problem and partially rotted joists, which we now have the time and money to replace.
The room is about 4mx3m and the joists runs long ways.
They are currently located directly into the stone, which is typically Victorian rubbish on the inside! There is no support beam part way across etc.
We will be replacing around 50% of these at least and have had different opinions on fixing and general solutions of. These are:
Cuts out, enlarge hole use a little damp proof membrane around end of joist and wiggle into place, the overlap by my rough calculation would be a bout 2 inches at each end does not seem enough?
Use wall hangers, tricky as stone is not the easiest and made up of lots of smaller pieces not big lumps.
Add a wooden batton using 6x2 at each end and runs new joists using modern hangers, quite like this idea and seems quite simple but massive weight in the fixings.
Use option one but also add a beam half way through for extra support, not convinced needed.
All opinions welcome thank you