I've got a room that's currently missing a floor so in order to avoid any nagging from the family it's about time I got one installed!
As this will be a bathroom which may have tiles on the floor I've aimed to spec it to be stiffer than the building regs call for. All timber (C16 or better and treated) is 47x150mm @ 400mm centres with the longest span being <2500mm. I'll run a line of strutting in up the middle although I've not drawn these.
In the rest of the house I've used 22x150 T&G floorboards which I'm sure would be enough but I'm thinking ply would probably be better here as it's a bathroom.
So far so good but I've got a couple of questions...
As you can see from the attached pictures the room I'm working in doesn't have two parallel walls. I'd planned on fixing wall plates around the perimeter of the room and then using joist hangers but clearly on the right hand side of the room joist hangers won't work (unless you can get 70 degree hangers?). What's the best way to terminate the timber on the right hand side? The best alternative idea I can come up with is to fit the wall plate on the right lower, rest the timber on top and then in fill between the joists to prevent them from twisting.
Have I missed anything else I should be considering?
Cheers
As this will be a bathroom which may have tiles on the floor I've aimed to spec it to be stiffer than the building regs call for. All timber (C16 or better and treated) is 47x150mm @ 400mm centres with the longest span being <2500mm. I'll run a line of strutting in up the middle although I've not drawn these.
In the rest of the house I've used 22x150 T&G floorboards which I'm sure would be enough but I'm thinking ply would probably be better here as it's a bathroom.
So far so good but I've got a couple of questions...
As you can see from the attached pictures the room I'm working in doesn't have two parallel walls. I'd planned on fixing wall plates around the perimeter of the room and then using joist hangers but clearly on the right hand side of the room joist hangers won't work (unless you can get 70 degree hangers?). What's the best way to terminate the timber on the right hand side? The best alternative idea I can come up with is to fit the wall plate on the right lower, rest the timber on top and then in fill between the joists to prevent them from twisting.
Have I missed anything else I should be considering?
Cheers