Recent content by olmeister

Ok full disclosure - the pictures are 2 years old when the wall was removed, kitchen and house has been fully fitted and plastered. Whilst the floor hasn't given way or even any noticeable shifting there are some hairline cracks on the walls upstairs above and around these joists. They may be...

Apologies for the crude sketch and photo thereof I don't have a PC atm. The leftmost short joist is sat on an internal wall (scribbled). The other 5 are now unsupported. Large screws have already been put through the overlapping joists but obviously this needs to be sound. They are only short...

Why may it work and why do you have doubts?

So the walls are now completely gone in the full view picture. Where the little wooden lintel above the old door way was, the brickwork above that was providing support as the 2 joists don't run full length there. I have tried to annotate the image, right of the cross the remaining 4 joists run...

Hi all, I have removed a wall at the end of my kitchen to make one open space. This wall divided the kitchen and creating a pantry and a space under the stairs. On advice from a builder I removed the wall believing that the floor joists run the length of the building and therefore the wall...