Floor Joist Support Systems

While some floors are built directly on a concrete slab those built above open areas such as crawl spaces basements and lower floors almost always use a floor joist system to provide weight bearing support for flooring furniture people and everything else in your home.

Floor joist support systems.

This engineered and patented design distributes the wall loads more evenly to the floor joists reducing side pressure which in turn prevents the wood joists from twisting or buckling like in other basement wall straightening systems that push off only one or two floor joists. These reinforcing joists install quickly in crawl spaces with a complete installation taking about a day and provide a permanent solution. Solid blocking should be used where floor joists overlap over beams. The best way to permanently solve sagging bouncy floor problems is to install smartjack posts beneath the beam that supports your crawl space joists.

Providing more support and rigidity than cross bracing solid blocking is a reasonable alternative but can be an obstacle for running plumbing pipes and electrical wire between floor joists. The joist support helps reinforce the floor so it can handle the weight load it needs to. Fixing basement walls perpendicular to the floor joist unique in the industry the perpendicular gorilla wall braces utilize the support of three floor joists to straighten bowing basement walls. Each smartjack post rests on a precast concrete pad that is set on a base of compacted stone.

Crawl space joist supports are steel adjustable support posts that are installed to repair sagging floors.