floor beams

Good morning all, I’m about to complete on a house with a garden big enough to-build a tree house for my kids. The problem is no trees! Ha. I’m looking to build a play house with a suspended floor about 6ft off the ground with a room underneath. I just need advice on timbers etc. I would like...

Looking for some advice on a row of loose bricks I’ve came across when lifting floorboards on an upper floor property. The row of bricks runs perpendicular to the run of the joists. There are 3/4 bricks standing vertically then the joist then 3/4 bricks again then the next joist. There is no...

Hi all, first post here! This one may be a ridiculous question but I am planning on adding two layers of 12.5mm acoustic plasterboard between the joists, on wood battens to add mass for soundproofing. Below that I’ll add some acoustic roll (with an air gap), I’ll also be putting Greenglue tape...

Hi all, I’ve recently moved into a new build timber-framed, brick-clad house which has a small dry-laid concrete patio at the rear. During this wet summer I’ve noticed that water pools towards the house. A spirit level on the slabs confirms the same (but to which degree I’m not sure). I’ve...

Hello I have a standard Vic Terrace property where many of the floors are warped (and bouncy) and Im trying to work out the best solution to levelling and firming them up. There are 2 rooms per floor, supported in the middle by a timber spine wall - bricks at either end. To make matters more...

In a 30 year old house, floor is uneven and creaky. Not floorboards but MDF flooring. How can we fix this? Do we need to relay whole floor?

I have an already converted loft but they have blocked off a quarter of the roof for in the eves for storage. I'm wanting to knock this out and make it one big room. The problem i have is i'm unsure what to do about the floor. In a perfect world i want to but two ledger boards either side and...

Howdy folk, putting my floating floor into a downstairs WC currently, Concrete subbase, 100mm PIR then 2x Chipboard. Noted on the kingspan site they state to use timber battens on both door transitions and also baths n toilets etc. I figure this makes sense as you don't really want a bouncy...

I need to run central heating pipe horizontally under the floorboards of an upper floor. I need to go through only one 75mm wide beam, but I'm wary of boring or notching it, also because that would be quite close to the wall bearing the beam. So I thought of running an 8mm or 10mm pipe...

With some advice from a builder friend we are going to replace the floor beams in our cellar, there are 2 beams that sit in a wooden beam above the cellar entrance. The builder advices us to replace it with a Concrete lintel but I have read online that concrete lintels supporting floor beams...

Hi, In the new year I have to replace the entire floor in the front parlour of my Victorian Terraced house. The current joists that are there are 7x2.5 inches and 161 inches long. I have tried looking online and finding the exact size of joists are difficult, can anyone recommend any help to...