Yeah, hindsight's 20-20... the floorboards we lifted in our victorian terrace showed excellent joists/footings and the loft was in great shape too. Since then, I've found bad footings/joists elsewhere and wish I'd investigated more thoroughly.
(£500 of timber and a few days of fun fixed the issues.)
Yeah, our roof leak turned out to be much older than we could know. But the rotten ceiling joists were replaced when we had the bedroom gutted just recently.
Yeah, hindsight's 20-20... the floorboards we lifted in our victorian terrace showed excellent joists/footings and the loft was in great shape too. Since then, I've found bad footings/joists elsewhere and wish I'd investigated more thoroughly.
(£500 of timber and a few days of fun fixed the issues.)