Replacing Floor Joists With Concrete Slab

Do it piecemeal room by room.

Replacing floor joists with concrete slab.

Then use pry bars and your reciprocating saw to pry and cut the floor joist away from the subfloor. Begin with dry wedge in shim on block s between every other joist. Start by cutting out a small 1 2 in 2 5 5 1 cm section of the floor joist with a reciprocating saw. Iggy apr 2 16 at 8 31.

Replace a timber floor with a concrete slab just put the joists back on the jarrah sill looks pretty dry and solid. If your ground floor timber floors have become infested with insect damage or dry rot you might choose to replace them with concrete floors. Secure each length to the slab with concrete nails spaced approximately 32 inches apart and 8 to 12 inches from each end. These will be the end sill plates that support the ends of the floor joists.

Pry the floor joist from the subfloor with the back of your hammer. Im sure removing a suspended floor and replacing with a slab would work fine. A few dynabolts would be ok but it is not going anywhere. Install it flat on the slab surface with the outside edge aligned against the side wall or the edge of the floor line.

A few points ground floor slabs are only suitable for load bearing ground not suitable for shrinkable clay soils and or nearby trees lay hardcore blinding dpm concrete insulation pipes screed ditra mat tiles. Install it flat on the slab surface with the outside edge aligned against the side wall or the edge of the floor line. These will be the end sill plates that support the ends of the floor joists. Remove floor joists aluminum tape bottom sides of stud wall s sill fill the voids with mortar in block s big long lag bolts go back to 3 step your dry block areas crawlspace gravel fill up slab.