Need a bit of advice.

 

Is there an easy way of telling whether an interior wall is a suporting wall without sucking it and waiting to see if the upstair becomes the downstairs?

Well a suporting wall is brick,not plasterboard try tapping on it .

 

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Take a floor board up upstairs and see which

way your joists run.

 

Regardz

 

Ian.

 

Shit - I was afraid of that.

 

The said wall is a bathroom wall thats sides on to a small room thats accessed from the outside, i.e. outhouse. I am looking to extend the bathroom and by the sounds of it I am going to need a RSJ.

Originally posted by Ian D:

Take a floor board up upstairs and see which

way your joists run.

 

Regardz

 

Ian.

 

What should I be looking for? Which way should I hope they are going in?

You don`t wanna do it like that! you wanta do like this!

 

See if joists above run towards the wall ie are supported by it the floor boards will run at right angles to the wall if the case.

 

Erm gotta mate who can get get RSJ`S no questions asked but do not use the local multi storey if I was you.

Jeff TT

 

Joists either run from the front to the back of the house, or from the left to the right.

 

joists are supported by the wall at either end, ie front and back wall or left and right.

 

Any internal wall that runs in the opposite direction to the joists is a supporting wall.

 

Or in simpler terms, if your wall runs the same way as your joists it is not a supporting wall.

 

Regardz

 

 

Ian.

 

 

Thanx guyz.

 

I feel a floor board session coming up this weekend.