I'm removing a wall and replacing with an oak post and beam. First floor, directly supporting half a dozen rafters.
Post and beam sizes checked by SE.
His advice for fixing the bottom of the post was to take down a couple of courses of brickwork (rat trap bond, internal wall that was external in the dim distant past) , install a pad stone below floor level and sit the post on that secured by angle brackets screwed to post and pad stone. Fixing nicely hidden.
Having started investigations whilst timber is ordered I find that just my luck there is the end of a floor joist (2" wide) under where the post will land on the wall so I can't just drop a pad stone down below floor board level.
I can build up around the joist with a couple of courses of engineering bricks, but what would be best to bridge over the joist that I could fix the post base to and would not be ugly to look at. Or look out of place at the bottom of an oak post.
EDIT: Post 150mm square.
Post and beam sizes checked by SE.
His advice for fixing the bottom of the post was to take down a couple of courses of brickwork (rat trap bond, internal wall that was external in the dim distant past) , install a pad stone below floor level and sit the post on that secured by angle brackets screwed to post and pad stone. Fixing nicely hidden.
Having started investigations whilst timber is ordered I find that just my luck there is the end of a floor joist (2" wide) under where the post will land on the wall so I can't just drop a pad stone down below floor board level.
I can build up around the joist with a couple of courses of engineering bricks, but what would be best to bridge over the joist that I could fix the post base to and would not be ugly to look at. Or look out of place at the bottom of an oak post.
EDIT: Post 150mm square.