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Old 11-02-2009, 10:23 PM   #1
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Default Solution for sagging joists

Our ceiling joists were sagging. My wife wanted a cathedral ceiling, but after reading numerous posts on this forum I realized that probably wasn't going to work out.

So we decided to keep a flat ceiling. The contractor was adverse to cutting out the old joists (for fear of the walls splaying out).

But the old joists were sagging as much as an inch, and they were on 24 inch centers.

We ran an LVL the 24' length of the room and jacked up each joist and tied it to the LVL with hurricane clips. After that we screwed 1x4 furring strips on 16" centers across the joists and installed shims as necessary. After we got the joists jacked up and clipped on the room looked like it had a new ceiling. The transformation was dramatic. The LVL cost $300, and the guy who did the calculations on sizing them said he wanted the sale but a truss would probably be cheaper. We went with the LVL anyway for scheduling (they were in stock and we were already there).

The drywall is up now, and it looks good. There's a low spot that we didn't find, but hopefully it won't be too obvious once everything is finished.

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