Remodeling my master bath and I'm swapping the tub and shower. When I pulled the old garden tub and the platform around it, I discovered that they had notched the floor joist to make room for the drain.
This notch is ~2.5" deep and 3.5" wide and darn near in the center of a 15' long 2x10 floor joist and will end up under the new 54" square shower. At first I didn't think much of it, but after reading up on what notches are acceptable, this one clearly is not. I don't want issues down the road with sagging and aligning the shower doors so it seems like I should sister this to strengthen it.
This addition is relatively young (2006) and while the floor isn't completely level, it doesn't seem to have sagged.
Am I right that this should be sistered and if so how far past the notch on each side should I go?
Second Q, the reason I'm doing this remodel is there was a leak at the shower through to the crawl space. There was some subfloor damage and three joists show water staining.
Again, I wasn't concerned as they seem sound, just stained. I think that is true of the near one and the far one. The near has a rotted section like a notch, maybe 1.5" deep and 6" long. But it's 18"-20" from the end of the joist and the staining isn't that deep. The far is only stained on top, no obvious rot or splitting.
The middle, however, obviously saw the bulk of the water. It's complete, but there is separation of the grain. There's also a tall, shallow cut in this joist they put in for clearance to the old shower drain (whoever originally built this obviously didn't plan ahead).
Even though this is only ~40" from the end of the 15' joist, I'm wondering if it should be sistered too? The tub will be going here (you can see the drain location), with the end of the tub about where the far joist is. This is a different joist to the first one.
Hi All, thanks in advance for the advice.
We are doing a mostly-gut remodel of a small townhouse. We recently removed a wall and opened the ceiling above and found that one of the floor joists for the second floor had been cut about 4-5 feet from the wall. There are some wood scraps inserted into the gap, maybe to hold the wiring up?[img]https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.doityourselft.com-vbulletin/2000x1504/20230107_101832_d1c8b265cc650981748658ccf2ec3c18029a5f22.jpg[/img]
The other floor joists all extend from one side of the room to the other, and are pocketed into the brick walls on both sides. I'd like to replace the missing section of joist and sister it to another board, but hesitating because I'm confused by the fact that there is no existing pocket for the end of the missing section of joist to slide into. Either there was never a pocket and this floor joist was just floating in space, or someone did a very convincing brick repair where the pocket used to be, or...well, that's all I've got.
Do any of you pros know of a good reason why I shouldn't cut a pocket in that wall to insert the ends of the new boards? Does this seem like a reasonable solution? (That ductwork will be coming out as well.)
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I'm in the process of replacing our bath fans. It's clear they were put in before the ceiling, all the screws are angled down. I'm not able to get the fan unsecured from the ceiling joist. Have tried different bits, screw extractor, handheld screw drivers of different lengths, brute force. Nothing will get these screws out.
I don't want to cut up the ceiling to access it.
Is it possible to cut out the piece of ceiling joist, about 1ft worth then sister in a new piece or is that just not worth the structural damage and it's better to just cut up the ceiling and fix it after?
TIA
01-14-23, 08:29 AM
