Hey look!! We have a floor...on floor joists...on piers and foundation blocks!!
It's a beautiful thing (that will be the front porch there in the foreground).
Underneath the house; where all the magic happens. In our current home the floor trusses are just 2x8's (maybe 2x12's...I haven't paid that much attention). Whichever they are they were not put in level. When you floor joists aren't level then you most likely will have squeaky floors. Well guess what...we have squeaky floors in our current house. In our new house we did things a little differently to make sure we didn't have problems with joists not all being even. Instead of standard 2x product butting into the ledger beam (that may not be the correct term, but it's the one I'm using) we have engineered wood "I" beams laying on top of the ledger. What this means is our floor is "strong like bull."
A huge foundation, lots of piers, ledgers, engineered I beams....there is a lot that goes into just getting a house to this stage!
The floor deck in progress
The floor decking in progress from the other side.
Hey look!! We have a floor...on floor joists...on piers and foundation blocks!!
It's a beautiful thing (that will be the front porch there in the foreground).
Underneath the house; where all the magic happens. In our current home the floor trusses are just 2x8's (maybe 2x12's...I haven't paid that much attention). Whichever they are they were not put in level. When you floor joists aren't level then you most likely will have squeaky floors. Well guess what...we have squeaky floors in our current house. In our new house we did things a little differently to make sure we didn't have problems with joists not all being even. Instead of standard 2x product butting into the ledger beam (that may not be the correct term, but it's the one I'm using) we have engineered wood "I" beams laying on top of the ledger. What this means is our floor is "strong like bull."
A huge foundation, lots of piers, ledgers, engineered I beams....there is a lot that goes into just getting a house to this stage!
The floor deck in progress
The floor decking in progress from the other side.
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