We are having an ensuite built over an existing room but are having a floating floor in it seperate from the existing ceiling in our sitting room below. The old exterior wall is breeze block not brick(as it was tile hung). There is no opportunity to put a wall plate bearer thingy on the block wall. The builder has used timber joist hangers and screwed them into the breeze block. The joists are moving when you walk on the WPB above and causing a horrible squeak over one particular joist where the shower tray will go. We want to tile the ensuite floor so don't want any movement of the floor or tray or tiles. The builder has now taken up the ply( and was not happy as it's glued down!) to find the squeak but how can he make the floor more rigid? He has put in a row of noggins where there is a join in the WPB but are more needed and what else can he do?
The builder has now suggested that he puts the grotty split WPB down back after all this! Half of it is still stuck to the surface of the joists! Am I being a perfectionist or what?!
And I would prefer not to have any silly answers please as I am seriously at my wits end.
Thankyou
Penny
The builder has now suggested that he puts the grotty split WPB down back after all this! Half of it is still stuck to the surface of the joists! Am I being a perfectionist or what?!
And I would prefer not to have any silly answers please as I am seriously at my wits end.
Thankyou
Penny