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Bathroom Fitting

Wetroom leaked, floorboards under wall affected

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 4.05 PM

Long story short, wetroom placed by previous owner has leaked. I've removed the wetroom shower base to expose the joists to help dry it out. The floorboards run under the wall from the bedroom next door. The floorboard ends in the bathroom have rotted through damp and had to be removed. They were sat on noggins on the joist. This has left the wall , which sounds like a stud wall, unsupported at one end where the floorboards were affected. How can I strengthen this area now the floorboard ends have gone? New noggin into joist which extends to new edge of floorboard? I can feel the floorboard under the wall extends 8.5 inches from the joist which leaves a gap of 3.5 inches from the next joist. Joist runs perpendicular to wall. Thanks for any help

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2 Answers

Anonymous user

Sound like you have timber frame house, you will need put Axel stands up to take the floor/roof above take out wall check this hasn’t rotted also, replace all rotted woods an rebuild wall an you should be okay hope this help
Answered20 August 2022
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Anonymous user

If it’s just a stud wall then the wall is not load bearing so I don’t think there would be need to support the roof with axel stands. If the floor plate for the stud wall was sitting in the old floor boards which are now rotten then I would remove as much of them as I can and put in some shims under the floor plate to bridge the gap between joists and noggins and just put a new noggin where the end of the studwall is floating. Hope that helps
Answered6 September 2022
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