Floor Joist Support Systems

These reinforcing joists install quickly in crawl spaces with a complete installation taking about a day and provide a permanent solution.

Floor joist support systems. It should be placed at eight foot intervals between any floor joists 2x10 or longer. In some cases additional joist supports will have to be installed before there can be extra heavy objects on the floor. The best way to permanently solve sagging bouncy floor problems is to install smartjack posts beneath the beam that supports your crawl space joists. This engineered and patented design distributes the wall loads more evenly to the floor joists reducing side pressure which in turn prevents the wood joists from twisting or buckling like in other basement wall straightening systems that push off only one or two floor joists.

While some floors are built directly on a concrete slab those built above open areas such as crawl spaces basements and lower floors almost always use a floor joist system to provide weight bearing support for flooring furniture people and everything else in your home. Solid blocking should be used where floor joists overlap over beams. Fixing basement walls perpendicular to the floor joist unique in the industry the perpendicular gorilla wall braces utilize the support of three floor joists to straighten bowing basement walls. A joist support is the horizontal beam that supports the floor joists.

Each smartjack post rests on a precast concrete pad that is set on a base of compacted stone.