Yikes! I'm in the process of reinforcing the floor joists under the bathroom/tub (before tiling, etc.) and realized that this end of this one seems to be resting directly on the frame of a basement window and not much else. Now I'm worried that jamming yet another joist in there will just be more load on the window.
The joists are undersized - rough cut low grade 2x6 (some measure 5 1/4" or less) spaced 24" oc. They're lapped in the middle and are supported by two girders with about 7' to 8' spans. The outside ends of most of the joists have been reinforced (decades ago) with face nailed 3' 2x6's, probably because the ends were rotting where the contacted the foundation. As far as I can tell, there is no proper sill plate between the joists and foundation - they seem to rest directly on the concrete block.
This joist is over a basement window, and there really doesn't seem to be much else supporting it. It looks like there are two 2x4's - bottom plate of wall above and maybe some semblance of a sill plate? - toward the outer edge of the foundation. Should I cut away the expanding foam and notch the new joist to fit over it?
I'm opening a can of structural worms here, I'm afraid. :hide: I'd love to have the money to hire an engineer and get everything properly fixed. However, this house is worth 60k and it would probably cost at least half that to fix it. I'm trying to tread the line of doing enough to support the new work we're doing and maybe a little extra structural support, without doing so much that it adds unnecessary new forces and loads to a geriatric structure.
The joists are undersized - rough cut low grade 2x6 (some measure 5 1/4" or less) spaced 24" oc. They're lapped in the middle and are supported by two girders with about 7' to 8' spans. The outside ends of most of the joists have been reinforced (decades ago) with face nailed 3' 2x6's, probably because the ends were rotting where the contacted the foundation. As far as I can tell, there is no proper sill plate between the joists and foundation - they seem to rest directly on the concrete block.
This joist is over a basement window, and there really doesn't seem to be much else supporting it. It looks like there are two 2x4's - bottom plate of wall above and maybe some semblance of a sill plate? - toward the outer edge of the foundation. Should I cut away the expanding foam and notch the new joist to fit over it?
I'm opening a can of structural worms here, I'm afraid. :hide: I'd love to have the money to hire an engineer and get everything properly fixed. However, this house is worth 60k and it would probably cost at least half that to fix it. I'm trying to tread the line of doing enough to support the new work we're doing and maybe a little extra structural support, without doing so much that it adds unnecessary new forces and loads to a geriatric structure.