Floor Joist No Sill Plate

The sill plate you use to replace the old plate should be made of pressure treated wood.

Floor joist no sill plate.

Said job leads to the following all caps admonition. Guess they never heard of uplift. You can remove the rotted wood and cut new sections to replace the old one. We worked for a builder about ten years ago that did something similar.

You don t need to use galvanized nails here. I had never seen this before but it appeared to be causing no issues. I was inspecting a 30 year old home the other day and noticed in the crawl that there were no sill plates on top of the concrete block foundation. It was 2x10 joists but no mudsill just sill seal.

As i started to shopvac the cavities last night i noticed that there is no sill plate. A sill plate or mudsill is the bottom horizontal member of a floor system to which vertical members floor joists are attached sill plates are usually composed of lumber in sizes of 2 4 2 6 2 8 and 2 10. I don t see any evidence of rot on the joists. If you have noticed that all of the floors in your home are sloping towards the center of the house this indicates there s something wrong with the main.

I spent the last few days replacing a rotten sill plate the horizontal piece of wood that lies between the foundation and the floor joists. The ends of the floor joists rest on the sill plate while the center of the joists rest on the main beam. Secure the new rim joist with 16p nails. There is no vapor barrier or covering of any type over the top of the block wall.

After the house was framed we would go in the basement and nail 2x4 s up on the bottom of the joists tight against the inside of the foundation. How to open a garage door with a broken spring. The main beam itself is held up by large support columns installed every few feet. The floor supports did not look pressure treated but maybe the way they used to do things made this ok or the type of lumber that was used was more resistant to rot.

The floor joists and rim joists rest directly on the block wall.