Hi,
We recently installed laminate flooring in the living room of our ground floor Victorian house (built approx. 1900).
The laminate floor was fine until a couple months ago we started noticing some bounce in one part of the floor. We removed part of the laminate flooring and lifted some of the floorboards and realised one of the floor joists wasn't leaning properly against the concrete "base" (or however these are called, couldn't find the name online), so there's a small gap in between of about 1/2cm or so.
From what we could see in the void under the floor, these "bases" are not very sturdy and they almost look like concrete bricks (I could move one of these bricks with my hand!). Whether these are typical 1900's standards I wouldn't know.
We are probably going to add some extra support in between the floor joist and the base so it stops moving, but we were wondering whether anyone could suggest a more permanent (or at least better) way of fixing the problem? We'll also try joining together both floor joists seen in the picture. Any thoughts on what's the best way to do this?
Any ideas on how to solve this problem would be much appreciated!
We recently installed laminate flooring in the living room of our ground floor Victorian house (built approx. 1900).
The laminate floor was fine until a couple months ago we started noticing some bounce in one part of the floor. We removed part of the laminate flooring and lifted some of the floorboards and realised one of the floor joists wasn't leaning properly against the concrete "base" (or however these are called, couldn't find the name online), so there's a small gap in between of about 1/2cm or so.
From what we could see in the void under the floor, these "bases" are not very sturdy and they almost look like concrete bricks (I could move one of these bricks with my hand!). Whether these are typical 1900's standards I wouldn't know.
We are probably going to add some extra support in between the floor joist and the base so it stops moving, but we were wondering whether anyone could suggest a more permanent (or at least better) way of fixing the problem? We'll also try joining together both floor joists seen in the picture. Any thoughts on what's the best way to do this?
Any ideas on how to solve this problem would be much appreciated!