Sometimes i dont know if old buildings are a challange or just a major headache.
Decided to strip and redecorate a room. 1st floor. Just taken skirting off and the wall moves as I pull it off. Strange it seems, studwork not secured to the floor. Only it's not a stud wall but a solid 4 inch wall, not sure brick or blocks. This separates the room from a bathroom in an adjoining flat (the wall would have been added after house was split, either 45 years ago when the house was turned to 3 flats or 25 years ago when it was turned into 2 flats (2 of them were joined together). It is not a wall from the original house, it's definitely an addition, no load bearing implications
Going to the room downstairs and making a big inspection hole , it's a 7x2 joist spanning the 3.9m width underneath the wall.
Taking a level to the ceiling, the joist under the wall unsurprisingly has dropped - not sure how to say by how much, but its no longer a flat ceiling
So the wall upstairs, the floor has dropped fractionally, meaning the blocks in the middle of the wall are not sitting on anything hence the visible movement when removing the skirting, of even giving the wall a hard shove
What are the options? It's probably 2 tons of weight where it shouldn't be. see pic. One is from room below showing position of joist / wall to a window opening (joist runs from window wall across) and the other in the room where you can make out the gap under the wall...
Sister 2 7x2 joists to the one which is bowing whilst jacking it up?
Take the wall down and rebuild as stud?
Cry?
All of the above?
Decided to strip and redecorate a room. 1st floor. Just taken skirting off and the wall moves as I pull it off. Strange it seems, studwork not secured to the floor. Only it's not a stud wall but a solid 4 inch wall, not sure brick or blocks. This separates the room from a bathroom in an adjoining flat (the wall would have been added after house was split, either 45 years ago when the house was turned to 3 flats or 25 years ago when it was turned into 2 flats (2 of them were joined together). It is not a wall from the original house, it's definitely an addition, no load bearing implications
Going to the room downstairs and making a big inspection hole , it's a 7x2 joist spanning the 3.9m width underneath the wall.
Taking a level to the ceiling, the joist under the wall unsurprisingly has dropped - not sure how to say by how much, but its no longer a flat ceiling
So the wall upstairs, the floor has dropped fractionally, meaning the blocks in the middle of the wall are not sitting on anything hence the visible movement when removing the skirting, of even giving the wall a hard shove
What are the options? It's probably 2 tons of weight where it shouldn't be. see pic. One is from room below showing position of joist / wall to a window opening (joist runs from window wall across) and the other in the room where you can make out the gap under the wall...
Sister 2 7x2 joists to the one which is bowing whilst jacking it up?
Take the wall down and rebuild as stud?
Cry?
All of the above?
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