Here we go again - bedroom floor number 2

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Another mess of joists in bedroom number 2.

Previously a chimney breast/fireplace here, long since removed.

Joists left hanging essentially in mid air with only a couple nails and a crappy cross member to hold it all up. Then on top of this they'd bodged a loosely fitted extra couple of bits of wood to nail the floorboards to.

What a mess.

I will need to install a new 6x2 crossmember at the back spanning the two full length joists, then another 3x2 crossmember at the front securing either end and the intermediate joists into it.


This is what I found with carpet up (I'd already started removing a couple of floorboards to see what I had going on under there. Shoddy piece of chipboard loosely nailed in place of where the old chimney breast would have been, and old threaded steel pipe no longer used.

Removal of the chipboard piece reveals another shoddily supported set of joists. Three joists not reaching the wall at the other side.

All the superfluous wood removed and left with the structural elements where I need to fit my new cross members to and screw it all together.

 

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Reinforcement completed:

 

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Just to close out this thread as a success.

Replacement boards down in multiple places in the room. T&G flooring so expensive.

Then overboard with ply, foam underlay and the flooring going down.

Finished.

 

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Looks mega, well done mate. Always feels good to get done, and the room feels so big. Then all the junk finds its way back in

Yeah be great to live in a huge mansion with nothing but nice big empty rooms.