Originally Posted By: jhorton
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Inspecting a home built in the 20’s or 30’s today. Very nice and well maintained home overall. I was very impressed with it. I was finishing up and went into the a separate crawl space for a small room addition.
Here is some of what I found.
Note the beam on the left isn't long enough so they just scabbed on length of joist.
The beam is right is not two joists but a 6x10? beam.
On this one the beam was too tall so they just notched the end. It must have been a 3 x 14 or close.
The joist looks like it was 50 years old when they installed it.
I think every joist under this room was a different size. From the interior however there wasn't a clue. Everything looked good. You just never know what your going to find!
My favorite part. The classic scissors jack support post.
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Jeff <*\\><
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