A guy close by is carrying out a renovation and the the kitchen door is being blocked up with lightweight clinker blocks of about 8kg. The joists run across the doorway and are 3 by 2 at 400 centres, this being a 1920's semi. The joists terminate in a sleeper wall just past the door threshold, with the kitchen having a solid floor.
I was just wondering how you build off at the floor, do you install a soleplate? How do you treat the joists in terms of strengthening?
Above the door sits the original wooden lintel but there is an old diagonal crack running through the brickwork above the lintel. How do you treat this? Would you repair and replace or as the crack is old can the existing lintel remain in situ?
TIA.
I was just wondering how you build off at the floor, do you install a soleplate? How do you treat the joists in terms of strengthening?
Above the door sits the original wooden lintel but there is an old diagonal crack running through the brickwork above the lintel. How do you treat this? Would you repair and replace or as the crack is old can the existing lintel remain in situ?
TIA.