Remodeling or renovating your home can be an intimidating process, especially when contractors start throwing jargon around.

In this episode, we build the rest of our first floor by notching and installing 20 more floor joists into the girders. The middle 10 floor joists are installed similarly to the first 10 shown in ...

Insulation in floor joists helps with thermal performance and sound. We are building a garage apartment and used ROCKWOOL to insulate the floor platform. This is video #2 in our 4 part series on ...

Fire-Rated Design Options I-joists also offer design flexibility when it comes to fire-rated assemblies. Building codes require fire-resistant or fire-rated assemblies in certain locations, ...

Floor joists can occasionally twist, warp, bow, or shrink, especially if they were damp when installed. As a result, a space opens up between the joist and the plywood subfloor.

Leveling floor joists usually means the repair could be as simple as sistering the joists. As mentioned above, the cost to sister floor joists runs approximately $100 to $300 per joist.

But for structural components, like 39-foot-long floor and roof joists, he had to hire a helicopter, which hoisted the joists up three at a time and dropped them exactly where he needed them.

Cantilever: A bump-out addition can be cantilevered off the side of the house. Cantilevered bump-outs are limited to about two to three feet of projection from the side of the house.

The main reason to have floor joists underneath your home is for load-bearing purposes. They are not always necessary, like if your house is built directly on a concrete slab, but when on top of crawl ...

Fire engineering analysis for cantilevered buildings Detailed plans indicating where the cantilevered portions begin in relation to neighboring properties–as well as fire separation distance–need to ...

Each of the cantilevered floor plates required between three and four weeks of construction. (Courtesy ODA) The building broke ground in September 2019 and was expected to open its doors in late 2021.