{"id":731,"date":"2012-07-11T19:12:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T19:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=731"},"modified":"2012-07-11T19:12:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T19:12:53","slug":"floor-in-need-of-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/2012\/floor-in-need-of-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitby Cottage Floor in need of Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve read the previous post from the “other half” you’ll know we’ve got plans for the bathroom in the cottage.\u00a0 After the last weekend’s investigations, I’ve got other things to keep me occupied.\u00a0 The details of\u00a0a finished bathroom are far from my mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’ve discovered there’s not a lot holding the floor up and its far from level. Only a single beam over 5m long and with an average section of 140 x 140 mm holds the floor up.\u00a0\u00a0 The wall that was holding one end of the floor boards has moved away by about 125mm.\u00a0 And then to make the problem worse there was a cast iron bath right in middle.<\/p>\n

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Slope on floor around 75mm in 1200mm<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0The floor was packed out with any old bits of timber with chipboard over the top.\u00a0 I had spotted this\u00a0 prior to buying the cottage but the extent of the problem came as a bit of a surprise.<\/p>\n

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\"Timber<\/a><\/dt>\n
As well as dropping the supporting beam has bent<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
I’ve spent hours head scratching before I decided to get a bit technical and start measuring up the full extent of deflections and movement.\u00a0 Many measurement and levels have been added to a series of sketches so I can do more head scratching at home.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\"Wall<\/a><\/dt>\n
Wall under the cruck collar has bowed away from the floor<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
The wall originally\u00a0provided some support for the floor. They parted company many years ago and left the floor with a\u00a0bath on it dangling in mid air.<\/div>\n
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Plans for a solution are beginning to formulate. So far I\u00a0think I’ll be off to the woods and picking a tree to make an additional beam.<\/div>\n
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If you’ve read the previous post from the “other half” you’ll know we’ve got plans for the bathroom in the cottage.\u00a0 After the last weekend’s investigations, I’ve got other things to keep me occupied.\u00a0 The details of\u00a0a finished bathroom are far from my mind.\u00a0 I’ve discovered there’s not a lot holding the floor up and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,206],"tags":[258,228,265,201,263,52,264,57,207],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ido-diy-stuff","category-ido-property-stuff","category-whitby-cottage","tag-bathroom","tag-beam","tag-bowed-wall","tag-cottage","tag-floor","tag-joinery","tag-structural","tag-timber","tag-whitby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}