Hello,
I have got quite far down the road of planning my new stud wall in my 1930s terrace. The joists all run from front to back of the house, and my plan was for the stud wall to sit directly on top of one of the ground floor joists along its length.
I just assumed that the ceiling joists would be in line with the floor joists. Now after taking some upstairs floorboards up, I see than the closest ceiling joist to the floor joist I was planning to sit the wall on is about 120mm to the right.
Now I should say at this point that I am a humble DIYer, and desperate not to bite off more than I can chew. I also don't want this project to drag on for weeks and weeks, so don't want to do stuff that is going to take loads of extra time. I am very close to just giving up on the whole thing.
I realise I could take up a load more floorboards and then fit bearers between the joists for the stud wall to sit on so it was below the ceiling joist, but I worry that is going to take way more time than I have.
But, looking at the 120mm distance I have realised that I could attach the head plate of the stud wall slightly offset from centre on the ceiling joist (It is quite thick - 3"). Also that I could attach a second joist next the original one in the floor (with bolts) without taking up any more floorboards - and again attach the sole plate to this new joist slightly offset in the opposite direction, and then the head and sole plates would pretty much be in line with each other.
I just want to solve this as easily and quickly as possible without having to rip up more floorboards (this seems to take me an age). Does this sound reasonable? Would attaching the head and sole plate not dead centre of the joists cause problems?
Thanks for any advice.
I have got quite far down the road of planning my new stud wall in my 1930s terrace. The joists all run from front to back of the house, and my plan was for the stud wall to sit directly on top of one of the ground floor joists along its length.
I just assumed that the ceiling joists would be in line with the floor joists. Now after taking some upstairs floorboards up, I see than the closest ceiling joist to the floor joist I was planning to sit the wall on is about 120mm to the right.
Now I should say at this point that I am a humble DIYer, and desperate not to bite off more than I can chew. I also don't want this project to drag on for weeks and weeks, so don't want to do stuff that is going to take loads of extra time. I am very close to just giving up on the whole thing.
I realise I could take up a load more floorboards and then fit bearers between the joists for the stud wall to sit on so it was below the ceiling joist, but I worry that is going to take way more time than I have.
But, looking at the 120mm distance I have realised that I could attach the head plate of the stud wall slightly offset from centre on the ceiling joist (It is quite thick - 3"). Also that I could attach a second joist next the original one in the floor (with bolts) without taking up any more floorboards - and again attach the sole plate to this new joist slightly offset in the opposite direction, and then the head and sole plates would pretty much be in line with each other.
I just want to solve this as easily and quickly as possible without having to rip up more floorboards (this seems to take me an age). Does this sound reasonable? Would attaching the head and sole plate not dead centre of the joists cause problems?
Thanks for any advice.