floorboard support

stranger12

Hi All,

how can one re enforce / provide support for the floor board as the house I am working on has some of the floor boards cut just after joist so one side is supported by joist and one side hanging


can I use a piece of wood , screw it to joist in parallel and then that will be used as support for the peice which was hanging ?

many thanks

Grenage

You can! They are called noggins.

Crinkmeister

That's what 2 x 1 was invented for!

cyclonebri1

As above, it's standard practice, when I cut out floor boards I often deliberately cut just to the side of a joist rather than on the centreline, add a noggin where required and both sides of the joint are supported better.

leveller2911

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

As above, it's standard practice, when I cut out floor boards I often deliberately cut just to the side of a joist rather than on the centreline, add a noggin where required and both sides of the joint are supported better.

A "noggin" was never used to support anything they were used to prevent the floor joists from twisting and to take some of the flexing out of longer joists if there were no mid sleeper walls for support.

Herringbone noggins were the norm years ago but it was time consuming to do so people now just use off-cuts of 9x2 instead .

You would strike a straight line 90 degrees to the joist and stagger the noggins each side of the line to "tighten up" a floor.

cyclonebri1

leveller2911 wrote: »

A "noggin" was never used to support anything they were used to prevent the floor joists from twisting and to take some of the flexing out of longer joists if there were no mid sleeper walls for support.

Herringbone noggins were the norm years ago but it was time consuming to do so people now just use off-cuts of 9x2 instead .

You would strike a straight line 90 degrees to the joist and stagger the noggins each side of the line to "tighten up" a floor.

I use the word noggin as it had been used earlier and I didn't want to confuse the op by correcting it.
It's also fair to say that these days any short piece of timber used to bridge or add support anywhere in in floor or roof construction if referred to as a "noggin", I'll not use the word pedantic is any way:o:o;)

27col

The answer yes is so obvious that I can't believe that this question is actually being asked.