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Upstairs Floors - consider the use carefully |
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by Quandline  (June 2007) (rank 8th) |
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We have a great mezzanine area that will be overhauled as part of our renovation. The area is large has great natural light and access out to a 30sqm balcony. On paper it had great potential for a "pool room" (as in "rack em up" not as in "dive in and swim").
Only problem was the original owner/builder must have had other plans for this area as they decided to give this floor very little in the way of support. In short the supporting joists were placed way too far apart (over 900mm) for the thickness of floorboard (30mm) and the type of timber used (oregon) which was by nature very flexible.
What this led to was a very "bouncy" floor that gave us little confidence in handling a 300kg+ pool table and surrounding bunch of guys clutching beers.
So, "what to do" we said?
Quite simply our floor needed more support. To do this we doubled the number of supporting joists to have a 450mm spacing and placed some flexi filler between the top of the new joists and the floorboard above to deaden any potential squeeks.
The result was awesome. The floor now feels rock hard under foot and when the room isfinished I will not be asking my friends to only come up two at a time to themezzanine in case it caves in 
