How do you fix a sagging bathroom floor. The floor is historic so my mom does not want to rip it up. She is fine with me just reinforcing it to prevent it from getting worse. I put the images in the link. https://imgur.com/a/qImCG7O
It seems that some of the cross beams have rotted through and broke. The main beam there looks fine. The crawlspace is encapsulated so I am not sure if jacks can be used with out damaging the plastic. When I touch the fallen cross beams bits of the overlying concrete or mortar (what ever they used) crumbles and falls down. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
Not much you can do if the floor isn't getting replaced. Any jacking / correcting you try to do is going to crack the tile. It likely needs more posts and beams underneath and they require footings. That would mean cutting and patching the encapsulation after work is done, just to stabilize what's there.
Typically post and beam houses were poorly built in the first place which is why it's in the shape it's currently in... and getting worse.
I hate to see that beautiful floor go but you've got major problems. The white salt deposits left on much of the subfloor boards and joists indicates that a lot of water has been going into that wood over time. I would be thinking this is a good time for a major bath remodel as the floor is going to probably need to be removed down to the joists, which also may need replacing or sistering.
The most common source of trouble is where the toilet connects to the drain piping. It can leak underneath the toilet, with the water seeping down to soak the surrounding wood. Often this is not visible from above. If repaired early more minor things like bracing can be done but I think you've waited too long and are in for a major repair.
I just had my house completely remodeled to the gut. The living room smells really bad either like dead animal or sewer smell. Most of the smell come from this one from from the floor in the living room. Below it is the new main sewer pipe in the crawl space to go out to the street
Called the GC he sent a plumber. He said no issue with plumbing and no leak down in the crawl space. He also found 3 dead rats in the crawl space (we fumigated the house before moving back in) so we all thought the smell came from them.
I had a rodent company came to completely clean the crawl space, removed all insulation infested with rat poo and pee and re insulated the whole crawl space. They found another dead rat and sanitized the whole crawl space then put a vapor moisture barrier all around.
The deodorized and sanitized worked made the smell significantly better but there was still a bit of smell. I ran an air purifier and open the window to let the bad air out for 2,3 days.
The smell starts to come back again after in the same spot. Depends on time of the day it can be slightly noticeable to super bad smell standing above the spot.
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As much as I think I am pretty handy, kinda embarrassed about having a frozen hot water radiator pipe on the first floor of our 50? year old 2 story house a couple times in recent years. We've been in the house 25 years.
As people said in another post, I'll keep the 1st floor temp higher overnight.
But in the process, I am still finding air leaks and things I could insulate.
The living room juts out a bit in front of the house (see pic of front 'porch'. This rectangular area with the bay window is not resting on the cinderblocks). I guess this is a crawl space? But no way to crawl into / through it..
It's dirt under there and it seems the 1st floor joists are resting on the cement of the front portch? A long time ago I threw some insulation in there, but realistically,....
1) what's the right way now to do it right?
I envision having to run some wires / mesh, stapled on the bottom of the joists , then put insulation on there?
2) Kraft / foil up or down?
Needless to say, it's a pain to get in there - each opening is about 14 1/2 wide by 9" tall.
3) Is / was this typical that part of the house is built over dirt / they don't build the cinderblock walls to go under the whole house?
Thanks!
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