Fixing Floor Joists To Bearers

When you need more strength than one piece of timber can give you you can laminate two bearers together with glue and nails.

Fixing floor joists to bearers.

Fixing flooring to steel joists. They were generally spaced at 450 mm centres across the bearers and supported at their ends on the foundation wall plate or bearer fixed to the top of the concrete wall. Main floor joists stump tube deck bearer bolted to main floor stump top or supported by separate deck stump b ea r e r j o i s t 6 decking joist. Like bearers floor joists may be single span or continuous span.

7 secure the second joist. They are supported by the bearers. In addition where there is only a single joist span in the full width of a house every second joist shall be fixed at its ends using a framing anchor with 3 2 8 mm nails to each leg. Floor joists shall be nominally fixed to bearers or supporting walls at every crossing using a minimum of 2 75 x 3 10 mm skew nails.

Wollongong campus practical activity for bearers and joists. 4 fix the first joist. To do this just repeat steps 10 and 11 and work your way along the bearers. Strip and sheet flooring can be gun nailed or screw fixed to the steel joists in.

Bearers 2 90x45 joists 90x45 joist span will be 1450 joist centres 450mm i was planing on skew nailing the joists to the beaers using 100mm twist nails but after practicing on some offcuts i didn t like the results seemed to be quite a weak fixing this could be poor technique. 5 run a string line along the joist. Floor joists floor joists were typically 150 x 50 mm or 200 x 50 mm but the size could range between 100 x 50 mm and 250 x 50 mm according to span. Now you re ready to secure all the joists to the bearers.

They can be made of timber or steel. Apply a generous amount of construction glue on the surface of one bearer. Limited access low clearance from the ground debris and old forgotten building material under the floor make the joist repair challenging. C b e a r e r m a i n p e r i m e t e r.

8 secure the other joists. Pryda joist strap is a simple bent metal strap with an inbuilt nail and nail holes for fixing with 35 x 3 15 mm galvanised pryda timber connector nails. Subfloor bearers need to be strong enough to hold the rest of the floor up. Previous step next step.

6 measure and mark for the second joist. Floor joists are the next series of members for the sub floor frame.