Dear hive mind,
The wall which ruined the layout of our downstairs has gone, as has the chimney breast which made this a mammoth task.
We would like the back bit (concrete floor) to be our tiled kitchen, and where that ends to be where our pine floorboards start.
This means somehow filling a gap which used to be a wall and a chimney breast and a hearth with floorboards, somehow. There are no joists underneath.
Is this doable? How would it be done? Sourcing the floorboards should be okay, but what would they attach to?
Extend joists, add brick piers to support as required?
That sounds like it would involve a lot of digging and a lot of building - and I assumed the wall was built on top of some kind of foundations. Could the floorboards not be laid on top of that somehow?
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Dear hive mind,
The wall which ruined the layout of our downstairs has gone, as has the chimney breast which made this a mammoth task.
We would like the back bit (concrete floor) to be our tiled kitchen, and where that ends to be where our pine floorboards start.
This means somehow filling a gap which used to be a wall and a chimney breast and a hearth with floorboards, somehow. There are no joists underneath.
Is this doable? How would it be done? Sourcing the floorboards should be okay, but what would they attach to?