Hi, we have a patio door leading to a deck and the floor in the house is rotten. It seems that the flashing on the bottom of the door on the outside is missing. We have owned the home for 2 yrs now so this has had time to get bad. The florin the kitchen is spongy very close to the door and I am wondering how best to tackle this problem. My thoughts are that the door has to come out and the bad portion of the floor cut out even under the sill and a new small piece put in and supported in the crawl space - with joist sort of setup to hold the new plywood. I do some home improvement but this may be a bit out of my league. Can you give me the proper advice on how to fix this as best as possible with the info given, we will have to decide weather we can tackle this or not.
We are in Carleton Place Ontario Canada.
thanks
Bill :confused:
jkirk whats yr thoughts on joist size blocking between the joists next to new rim joist piece especially at the splices and all along new piece and about putting hangers up? we looking at similar for a regular door and the joists got some split chunks from old nails and age. good idea or bad?
much thanks for the input jkirk. I should have mentioned also splicing the plate, but got the info I needed. apology to the OP if took your post off topic but it might apply to you to.:)
Thanks all for your advice. I am but a bit surprised that the process I mentioned was that close to correct. There should be a thanks button on this site to thank the people like you who help out.
Thanks again.
Bil