here's a view of the master bedroom floor joists. they were in pretty bad shape as there was a chimney sitting right in the middle of the floor. it dipped about 2.5 inches in the middle and as far as i'm concerned, this was not acceptable... instead of taking out all the old joists, i decided to simply nail the new ones to them. this decision was made based on the fact that, since the house is ballooned framed, these were not only acting as the floor joists, they are also acting as collar ties for the second story roof. hence, removing them is basically not a good idea, at least if you don't want your roof to fold....
these two are of the newly finished subfloor as well as the newly added 2x8's. (the 2x8's were added to provide more room for insulation in the master bedroom ceiling) in addition i raised the collar ties up about 1.5' to make the room feel larger. (overall the room is about 16'x24', minus the stairwell- which you can see the railing for in both the photos of the finished floor/ceiling)
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