Recent content by andyg123

Yes that could work... a bracket off the wall screwed into joists... I’ve ended up going out to get some extra joists to ‘sister’ against the existing. Only trouble is a) the counter timbers that the hangers are attached to are in the way and b) I had to split the new joists in half to get them...

But the floorboards will be fixed to the really thick existing floor joist so will help brace the joist will it not? Failing that could I shift the hangers a bit closer to the wall? If I put in a building notice would they advise or just tell me off?

If I boarded over the joists with floorboards would that help instead? Then it would be like the rest of the floor wouldn’t it?

do you reckon it’d be okay to lose them or move them? The lath ceiling is pretty solid but I was considering over boarding it or skimming it one of these days...

Cheers that’s what I was thinking. I’m not sure the verticals I have are hangers. They are pretty flimsy and fixed from the roof joist to a counter timber running across the Floor joists. Again these are pretty flimsy two. Only two of them aswell. I did wonder whether they were used in the...

Ok I’ll put back a couple of central supports. House is engineering brick, purlin span 4m and its an 8.5inch deep timber with a second 11inch purlin above it. Pretty hefty and all the other examples are local but prob best to get a central support... just looks so wierd without one.

Basically just the sane as all of these.

Hmmm. How could the stud have supported when there’s only a joist under the purlin? Would a central support suffice?

Would a bracket tying to the wall suffice? I did this in the other room and absolutely solid. Plus the primary purlin above bridges the whole span with no support?

Cheers Foxhole. I was intending to leave the purlin as is, reboard to the brick wall and dry line the brick wall. The purlin is the second purlin in the room and well embedded at the sides into brick. Just wondering if it’s okay to leave it or if it needs a central support. I think I’m being...

Hi everyone. I’m in a 1908 house with original second/loft storey with dormer. The room is about 4m long with two hefty purlins running from one wall to the next. Below the lower purlin there was an original Lath and plaster stud wall that I’ve taken out. (I did the same with the back room but...