The chimney floor hole needs to be addressed. It has been an open wound for too long! However, there is nothing to fasten the floor boards to as the joist was cut clean through long ago to make way for the chimney, and the scabbed wood they added didn’t seem to do much.
So I cut a piece that fit overtop.
It will likely be a temporary piece; when the main floor is renovated and the area is more accessible, it will be repaired in a more appropriate way. In the mean time, it will hold the floorboards up.
(Notice there is no soundproofing or fire block insulation yet? This is to come.)
So now there is something to which to mount the floorboards.
Here is our progress so far. It’s almost move-in ready. (?)
