Leveling old floor joist with new?

 
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Post by Rob R. » Thu. Aug. 27, 2020 9:02 pm

I know the feeling. My house has a single load bearing wall in the middle...except it is not on the middle, it is offset by 2' from the main beam in the basement, and there is a hump in the floor over that beam.

 
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Post by fig » Thu. Aug. 27, 2020 10:06 pm

Yeh they built walls two feet away from the supports in the basement and when the weight started to take its toll pushing the floor joists down on one side of the support and bowing them up on the other side. I suspect there was alot of beer involved in the construction of this house.

I should have known better but i was working on a tow boat when i wanted to buy the place and i didnt have alot of time in between boat rides to really examine it. It was cheap and out in the country so i had to jump on it. It was basically bought out of desparation. Ive enjoyed it though. Its cold, damp and crumbling down around my ears but its paid for....lol.

 
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Post by Richard S. » Fri. Aug. 28, 2020 7:09 am

freetown fred wrote:
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Just take a board the same thickness as your rise & 45* one edge--nail it, stain it--wa-la--my house is 200+ yrs old & it just is what it is--I tried jacking & many other things. I had a 1 7/8 lip. Ya get used to it even with my cane.
I did something similar at my parents but for the whole board. 3/4 flooring on low side and tile on the other side that was perhaps 1.25 inches. I just angled the whole transition. It's about 7 inches wide so you can barely tell it's there.

 
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Post by Richard S. » Fri. Aug. 28, 2020 7:26 am

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Yeh they built walls two feet away from the supports in the basement and when the weight started to take its toll pushing the floor joists down on one side of the support and bowing them up on the other side.
Same problem at my house, the main part of the building is old barn. I have logs for joists instead of dimensional wood for large part of the first floor and they are about 3*10 square space between them. The dividing wall for two sides would of been added after and it doesn't sit on top of where the logs meet and are supported, the floor slopes down on one side and slopes up on the other.


 
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Post by rberq » Fri. Aug. 28, 2020 9:20 am

fig wrote:
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Its cold, damp and crumbling down around my ears but its paid for....lol.
Paid for is good. All that mortgage money you would otherwise be spending, can go toward making it better.
Somebody asked me if I like the "primitive" style of furniture. I said I have spent 40 years getting my house to NOT look like that.

 
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Post by freetown fred » Fri. Aug. 28, 2020 9:45 am

I think antique or primitive would depend on the age of the house--I know with mine I took serious strides to keep it as was 200 yrs ago--no loss in comfort--there's furniture, trim work, flooring etc. that would knock your socks off while maintaining the originality. :) All has to do with individual taste.

 
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Post by rberq » Fri. Aug. 28, 2020 12:27 pm

freetown fred wrote:
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I think antique or primitive would depend on the age of the house--I know with mine I took serious strides to keep it as was 200 yrs ago--no loss in comfort--there's furniture, trim work, flooring etc. that would knock your socks off while maintaining the originality. :) All has to do with individual taste.
Antique, yes. Primitive, no. Your trim work and flooring, things like that, are irreplaceable. Our house looks on the inside like it probably looked 100 or130 years ago. But go to the "primitive" store, and they want to sell you NEW stuff like this picture. Cracked and warped boards, doors that don't fit, modern chrome handles, paint that's been intentionally messed up. If it was OLD, and authentic, OK, but I'll be damned if I'll pay NEW prices for crap that I could slap together in twenty minutes from an old wooden box and some scrap hardware. :no1:
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Post by Richard S. » Fri. Aug. 28, 2020 12:36 pm

My Goddaughter had on some ripped jeans, I had some on with rips too. I pointed out to her mine were authentic. LOL


 
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Post by Rob R. » Fri. Aug. 28, 2020 2:17 pm

Lining up the floor of an old house with an addition or a remodeled room can be a real pain...I am going through it right now, with a two story addition. First level was not too bad, but the architect messed something up on the second level. The framers got the first floor all done, and the second floor flush with the original house and realized the roofline of the addition was going to be a few inches low. Looks like they will finish the day building a small knee wall. :eh:

 
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Post by freetown fred » Fri. Aug. 28, 2020 2:28 pm

I gotcha ya R--I guess if I went to the city's, I'd find the phony kinda stuff you're talkin about, & I agree with ya--most/all my stuff is barn finds for the most part--I'm thinkin the most expensive piece is my roll top desk--hell, that cost me 10 bales of hay--I've had to refinish most of it back to it's original state--I know, I know, I just like the white, GLASS handles (also a barn find--found a milk bucket full of them) had to do something with them!!! :) Richard, I've had the same conversation with my grandkids!!! LOL

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Post by rberq » Fri. Aug. 28, 2020 2:42 pm

Fred, I'd like to see a closeup of that clock. That must have cost a few bales, too.

 
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Post by freetown fred » Fri. Aug. 28, 2020 2:47 pm

rberq wrote:
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Actually an elder of the Passamaquoddy Tribe up in your neighborhood gave me that--not the best pix but best I could do at the moment.----------------------------------------------- ------------Fred, I'd like to see a closeup of that clock. That must have cost a few bales, too.

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Post by rberq » Fri. Aug. 28, 2020 3:03 pm

Rob R. wrote:
Fri. Aug. 28, 2020 2:17 pm
... the architect messed something up on the second level. The framers got the first floor all done, and the second floor flush with the original house and realized the roofline of the addition was going to be a few inches low. Looks like they will finish the day building a small knee wall. :eh:
Not too bad, a little lumber fixes it. Some carpenter making renovations 75 years from now will get a chuckle out of it.
A guy I worked with was building a new house, the foundation was all poured, and when the framers showed up they found it was more a trapezoid than a rectangle. Not as bad as this diagram, but enough so half of one wall had nothing to sit on. :o
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