Hi,

I am currently in the process of having the front 2 rooms of my house restumped and a new subfloor built. I had the builder do the stumps & bearers and I had planned to do the joists & yellow tongue as I had been told it was just a matter of fixing the joists to the bearers & screwing down the YT. But after asking why there was no bearer along the walls the builder told me that the joists are fixed to the walls with a wall plate (joist hanger?) and since researching a little I can see it's a little more complicated that I first thought. The builder offer to do it but at $12 per meter for install and thats after I've already spent $6 per meter for the F17 lengths ($18 total) it seemed a little pricey?

I have 25 lengths of F17KDHW 90x45 each 4.6m with approx 1.1m span between bearers/walls (ie. 2 stumps in the middle) but I dont know what joist hangers to use or how to install them into double brick. (size & type of bolts?) and what to fix the joists to the bearers with. Nailed or strapped or both?

Thanks in advance


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