Recent content by yoshokun

I'm curious myself (for my own trivia!) about the walls and the beams being white. Frankly any sort of insight into how why they did the floors this way w/o a post to support it in the center boggles my new construction matchstick house owning mind. And yes, they are floor joists, not what I...

Hello everyone, newbie here! My mother-in-law has a 1950s era non-end unit townhouse that we're looking at modernizing. When poking around in the basement we saw a beam that supports the first floor that had cracks running through it (see photos attached). We're not sure how bad these are. It...