Updated 7-18-23
Phil and the guys walk you through how to support a floor.
⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️
00:00 Most irritating thing when he first started out
00:15 This is something that someone else started on
00:30 The floor was caving in
00:50 Floor joist broke
01:10 The hallway needs to be fixed too
01:35 Put in new floor joists where it’s needed
01:50 Put supports under the water heater first
02:12 We’re going to pour concrete into that because she bought some
02:30 Tim fell in the cold water
03:00 They are balancing trying to stay out of the water under this house
03:15 They have supported the water heater under the floor
03:25 The beam off to the side is broken and we need to re-build it
03:45 Somebody else tried to fix it
04:00 The house will need more attention
04:10 And Phil fell when hammering on the floor joists, need to be careful
04:20 What they’ve done to support the floor
04:30 Put support piers under the floor
04:45 Adding floor joists
04:55 Why we added 2bys where the plywood meets
05:20 Put screws because they don’t pull out
???? Subscribe, ????, it helps a lot!!
➤❓/ ????: ask@straightarrowrepair.com
➤ Follow https://straightarrowrepair.com/pipf
➤➤I get a little for the channel-no charge for you if you use the links:
➤➤Shop Amazon https://amzn.to/3CxD1T4
➤➤Tool lists & recommended products???? https://straightarrowrepair.com/0lvf
Transcript:
A deck that somebody else started this time. Always fun, that was probably the most irritating thing when I was first starting out is I spent a lot of time fixing what other people did. This is something that somebody else started on, which again, when I was young. Can I just get something that someone else didn’t screw up? But this is a daunting little task if you haven’t got any experience.
But anyway, the floor was caving in and ultimately the reason is the water coming from the back side of the house going underneath the house. And even though it has blocks, it finds a way to get to the lower point and they’re going to do some things to support stop that from happening. Both the floor joists right there broke. We’re going to fix that. Probably put another board beside it. The supports here are not doing any good. The floor joists over there is rotted, if you can see that, Drew. You can probably grab it with your hand and break it up. So we’re going to replace that. And on the other side of the wall, there’s the hallway where you get in and out in the house and it’s bounces. So we’re going to try to fix that.
So we’re going to do all that is we’re going to put a support right straight to the middle and we’re going to use 4x4s, because that’s what they have. I actually have some 2x6s turned on edge, but the 4x4s will work just fine and we’ll put in new floor joists where it’s needed and maybe if they have enough, I’ll put it on every bit of the room.
But we’re going to make this place better. We’re going to put supports under the water heater first because water heaters trying to cave through. So we’re going to put blocks and if you pan underneath there, this quite a lot of water and mud to deal with, which Tim’s already under there. Oh, it’s a swimming pool. Yeah. That makes it better. Doesn’t having that, so anyway.
Oh, yeah. Here we are on this adventure and we’re going to pour concrete into that, to try to… Because she bought some the guys told her that that was where the water was coming in. It looks like it some. But we’re going to pour concrete there and make it solid. So here we go. Oh…
That sounds pretty girly. Yeah. Okay. I fell in the water. It’s cold shrinkage. Yeah. Oh, not really that small it’s shrinkage, tell him Jay. Shrinkage. Kind of like the new guy, women get the stiff end of the deal. I don’t get to see much of anything. Yeah, well, at least you’re not in the water like you thought you were. We got, like, a balancing act going on. Close it up some. But we’re.
We’ve done a support that water heater, it’s what she requested. It’s definitely supported now. But the reality of it is that beam off to the side there is all broken. It’s setting up more because we raised it up. What we’re going to have to rebuild that. If you look underneath and you see how the bottom of the floor joist is broken and it’s broken right there.
And it’s been tried like somebody else, a little feebly tried to fix it by putting a little short, couple of short, 2bys across there. And that didn’t do much. What we’ll have to do at some point is put another floor joist in there and support it shorter although anyway. This house is going to need more of our attention. But I think you did the job, Tim. That beam’s going to have to be fixed.
They told me, as I’m hammering you’re about to fall. This floor joist broke and he’s saying that one was moving that I’m standing on, but we put piers through the middle and 4x4s to support we’ve actually put that you might say what in the world is that? That is where we put piers underneath the water heater, and then we put piers on the floor joists that are in sad shape. And now we’re getting ready to put floor joist beside the ones that are actually here.
And we’re going to screw everything to the 4k4s and to the existing floor joists. And this is going to be one solid house room in this house anyway.So here we go with screws.
So if you watch some of our other videos, the point of us putting that make everything stitch together real good, we put 2bys in between on the edges and right here where they, where the seams go together.
That way it doesn’t move when you step on them and then bust whatever material you use, particularly if things like ceramic tile, so on, so. We also put screws in everything so it doesn’t back out, like nails would. And we’ve done all the floor joists, that needed to get fixed. So everything’s done with screws and everything’s screwed off and we’re getting too close to the final couple of pieces and we’re feeling pretty good.
So we’ll show you the completed job here in a little bit. As a matter of fact, now they want me to do the flooring. Which they were going to do before, but it’s all good. We’re going to get it done, take you through it. See you.