Is this structural or can we drill through it?
Installing some can lights in our room in an old house (1890) we have drilled out our holes and on this last one there is a random board next to the joist and we don't know what it's for so we don't want to drill through it. We have no attic space in this room, so we stuck a camera up there to look around and I don't see this piece of wood connecting to anything vertically and it doesn't continue parallel to the joist. My first thought was that this is just some wood attached to the joist there so they could drill some sheetrock up but the wood looks original and originally the ceiling were lathe and plaster so I'm uncertain. Anyone out there got an idea? The pic from the crawl space shows where I stuck a flat piece of metal up between the gap of that joist and this piece of mysterious wood to mark the location. submitted by /u/brookesrook [link] [comments]
| | Installing some can lights in our room in an old house (1890) we have drilled out our holes and on this last one there is a random board next to the joist and we don't know what it's for so we don't want to drill through it. We have no attic space in this room, so we stuck a camera up there to look around and I don't see this piece of wood connecting to anything vertically and it doesn't continue parallel to the joist. My first thought was that this is just some wood attached to the joist there so they could drill some sheetrock up but the wood looks original and originally the ceiling were lathe and plaster so I'm uncertain. Anyone out there got an idea? The pic from the crawl space shows where I stuck a flat piece of metal up between the gap of that joist and this piece of mysterious wood to mark the location. [link] [comments] |
