Love it - I was just about to do the same but wanted to make sure that using a jack was the way to go, so I'm happy to see others have tried it and it works!
So, I used an 8 ton bottle jack I got from Harbor Freight and when turned on its side like that, it wouldn't work. What worked great was the screw style car jack from my WRX! it has large flat surfaces (still used scrap wood to avoid damaging the new floor joists) and it was smooth and fast and works regardless of its orientation!
The outro 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣at first I didn’t know if y’all were trolling or not… and by the end of it …. I still don’t know if you are or not! Video saved! Great info for my future project
😂🤣 McFatties! Well for this job the floor joists sit on top of the main beams on both sides so no brackets are needed. If your joists hang between the beams then you will need to use brackets. We do however toe nail the joists in place to keep them from move and the subfloor gets glued and screwed down on the joist which takes out any side to side play.
Great tip about the jack to push the joist into place. That one is going into the vault.
Love it - I was just about to do the same but wanted to make sure that using a jack was the way to go, so I'm happy to see others have tried it and it works!
So, I used an 8 ton bottle jack I got from Harbor Freight and when turned on its side like that, it wouldn't work. What worked great was the screw style car jack from my WRX! it has large flat surfaces (still used scrap wood to avoid damaging the new floor joists) and it was smooth and fast and works regardless of its orientation!
The outro 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣at first I didn’t know if y’all were trolling or not… and by the end of it …. I still don’t know if you are or not!
Video saved! Great info for my future project
Man I have a project that I took on without any thought. I appreciate the video helped a lot!
Thanks!
Nice work! I have a nasty floor in one of my rentals I'm tackling this month!
I came for joist repair, left with motivational message 😂👌🏽
That outro was hilarious and I’m only 80% sure that you were messing around
How did you get your new lumber to match the existing lumber? was there a 1/4" difference?
Due to the old lumber compressing over time they were the same height or even shorter.
😅😅😅😅good humor. Im in the subscribe club witha plumb bob😅
Thank you!!
You don’t need any brackets or anything to keep them firmly in place? Mainly thinking about earthquakes or mcfatties roaming the floors.
😂🤣 McFatties! Well for this job the floor joists sit on top of the main beams on both sides so no brackets are needed. If your joists hang between the beams then you will need to use brackets. We do however toe nail the joists in place to keep them from move and the subfloor gets glued and screwed down on the joist which takes out any side to side play.
What if you new joist was taller than the existing one
If the new joist is taller than you will need to run it through a table saw to cut it to the correct height before installing it.
Or use a hand saw. Mark how far in you need to cut off and use a square to trace a straight light along the edge and just go careful and slowly