Evening all,
Just to explain, we've got an old millhouse and I'm looking to build a new floor over the mill workings. The walls are rubble built in soft limestone/chalk.
The original floor I'd like to keep as it's a great old feature however it's never going to be a decent load bearing floor as it wasn't designed to bear much weight.
My plan is to build a new floor over the top of it, the dimensions of the room are 6.5x4.5m.Because the walls aren't great I'm not crazy about the idea of bashing a couple of dozen holes in the wall for the new joists to fit into so I'm looking for alternatives (any suggestions welcome) I've seen online someone using an L shaped steel as a wall plate and bolting it onto his old walls for his joists to sit onto. Would this be an option, perhaps using individual joist hangers in order to follow the line of the wall better. I'm sceptical about the strength of this, but it would certainly be an easy solution.
The floor will hold a bedroom and small ensuite.
Cheers for any feedback.
Jim
Just to explain, we've got an old millhouse and I'm looking to build a new floor over the mill workings. The walls are rubble built in soft limestone/chalk.
The original floor I'd like to keep as it's a great old feature however it's never going to be a decent load bearing floor as it wasn't designed to bear much weight.
My plan is to build a new floor over the top of it, the dimensions of the room are 6.5x4.5m.Because the walls aren't great I'm not crazy about the idea of bashing a couple of dozen holes in the wall for the new joists to fit into so I'm looking for alternatives (any suggestions welcome) I've seen online someone using an L shaped steel as a wall plate and bolting it onto his old walls for his joists to sit onto. Would this be an option, perhaps using individual joist hangers in order to follow the line of the wall better. I'm sceptical about the strength of this, but it would certainly be an easy solution.
The floor will hold a bedroom and small ensuite.
Cheers for any feedback.
Jim