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First post, so please excuse any lack of info and my 'improving' DIY knowledge....
Restoring our upstairs bathroom in a 250 year old farmhouse in France and need to get the floor as level as possible. I am installing a shower tray in an alcove and had to replace two joists, which I levelled.
The remaining joists in that section of the room run down (from right to left) by 10mm from the outside wall to the centre of the room where they sit on a massive oak beam. Walls are mud and rubble and straw, but they are nearly a metre thick.
I am in the process of replacing the joists in an attempt to level the floor. The joists are approx 80mm x 60mm x 1250mm and made from douglas fir. They are spaced at 30cm centres. At the wall end the joists rest (for between 7-10cm) on what appears to be an incredible hard brick.
As I have a 10mm drop from the wall end to the centre of the room (the remaining floor drops very slightly into the centre too) is it acceptable to notch the bottom of the new joists by 10mm?
Thanks in advance.
Restoring our upstairs bathroom in a 250 year old farmhouse in France and need to get the floor as level as possible. I am installing a shower tray in an alcove and had to replace two joists, which I levelled.
The remaining joists in that section of the room run down (from right to left) by 10mm from the outside wall to the centre of the room where they sit on a massive oak beam. Walls are mud and rubble and straw, but they are nearly a metre thick.
I am in the process of replacing the joists in an attempt to level the floor. The joists are approx 80mm x 60mm x 1250mm and made from douglas fir. They are spaced at 30cm centres. At the wall end the joists rest (for between 7-10cm) on what appears to be an incredible hard brick.
As I have a 10mm drop from the wall end to the centre of the room (the remaining floor drops very slightly into the centre too) is it acceptable to notch the bottom of the new joists by 10mm?
Thanks in advance.