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  1. jamie192

    No room for floor joists - Advice

    I will still get pictures when i go Wednesday so you can have a proper look. outside however you wont see alot, its terraced building but i can take a picture of the front and back. We have damp treatment specialists coming in doing the sort the damp parts out, we have to sort the floor out so...
  2. jamie192

    No room for floor joists - Advice

    ok so I have drawn another picture to make sure I have understood you correctly. So the wall plate will have the hangers attached to the side. I will do the wall plate in 4 by 4 and have dpc underneath. The floor boards are ok to go onto the top of the wall plate? Thank you for your help :D...
  3. jamie192

    No room for floor joists - Advice

    Joist Layout by jamie192 posted 16 Jan 2017 at 7:44 PM Does this picture make any more sense, so this is how it was, but they had cut out part of the joists to get them the right size for the floor height and to accommodate the wall plate. In the picture on the right is the brick wall with the...
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    Joist Layout

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  6. jamie192

    No room for floor joists - Advice

    Hi Thanks for your reply, I shall have to get pictures Wednesday when I go back. There is dpc in the main walls but there is none on anything the wall plates have been sitting on. This may have been how it was made but just as likely a bodge job which i would suspect due to the notched joists...
  7. jamie192

    No room for floor joists - Advice

    Hi all. OK so here goes, I have a property and the joists and the flooring have collapsed in the kitchen due to being rotten. This is due to no damp proofing at all.. go figure! So what was left of the suspended wooden floor construction was 2 by 5 wood on a wooden wall plate and they are...
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