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Reframing rotted walls under basement staircase
I’m looking for some advice on rebuilding these walls under my basement staircase. I opened up the walls, cleaned out the crawl space and found that the wood is rotted: there is some mix of insect damage and/or water damage, particularly impacting the studs closest to the exterior foundation wall. The floor plate is also pretty badly damaged, and you can see it is standing on bricks, but thankfully not carrying the full load of the staircase (one stud is completely disintegrated at the bottom). The proposed fix is to choose a place to pound in a “temporary” stud to maintain support for the staircase structure (potentially placing a brick below the floor plate at that location so that it doesn’t break the floor plate when I pound it in), cutting away the rotted wall on each side of the temporary stud, and pre-framing a new wall that ultimately joins / sisters to the temporary stud. Will this work? Anything else I should be thinking about based on these photos? Any help is appreciated. submitted by /u/Learned_Lemur [link] [comments]
| | I’m looking for some advice on rebuilding these walls under my basement staircase. I opened up the walls, cleaned out the crawl space and found that the wood is rotted: there is some mix of insect damage and/or water damage, particularly impacting the studs closest to the exterior foundation wall. The floor plate is also pretty badly damaged, and you can see it is standing on bricks, but thankfully not carrying the full load of the staircase (one stud is completely disintegrated at the bottom). The proposed fix is to choose a place to pound in a “temporary” stud to maintain support for the staircase structure (potentially placing a brick below the floor plate at that location so that it doesn’t break the floor plate when I pound it in), cutting away the rotted wall on each side of the temporary stud, and pre-framing a new wall that ultimately joins / sisters to the temporary stud. Will this work? Anything else I should be thinking about based on these photos? Any help is appreciated. [link] [comments] |
