Hello,
I will start from the beginning with the story concerning our new bathroom.
It was intended as a simple renovation (with a little extra work as always), with only one drain to be moved 1m to create a shower corner, and then new carpets and wall coverings, as well as some spotlights and simpler things. We tore up the old carpet, and when I then made a hole in the floor to be able to run the drainage, I discovered this sitting with cc60:
So after some investigations and curses about how this can hold up my whole bathroom floor (and the whole floor), I started planning to frame up an entirely new floor and tear this one out. But when I continued to tear away the floorboard, I saw that these metal tracks continue far into the middle of the house.
where a concrete wall is, (with a wooden beam on top). So that means I would also need to tear up the floor in the hallway to be able to access and secure the new floor joists. FUN!
Now I'm debating whether to skip framing up an entirely new floor and just run the drainage down to the basement instead, and then keep this wonderful construction, and also add new floorboard in the bathroom to patch what I've cut out. Can you do that?
The problem as I see it is how I would properly secure the floor drain when I can't attach it to anything, maybe securing the drain to the metal?
It certainly looks like something special but what is directly under these metal beams or whatever they are, are they standing on the floor of the level below. Isn't it possible to attach beams to the metal to build a frame for the well and how does water and sewage work. What kind of house is it, DIY or catalog house.
It undeniably looks very odd. IF the sheet had been attached to some weak frame at the top and bottom, I wouldn't have been so surprised. But these don't seem to be anchored sideways at all.
Directly under these metal studs is the basement ceiling. (also shavings). Attached the same way as the floor in the pictures. Yes, maybe you can attach the studs to the metal, that's a good idea. I can handle water and sewage, these metal studs go in the right direction, so I can get water up to the bathroom. For the sewage, I plan to go straight down into the basement next to the basement wall since there is a bathroom below this bathroom where I can go down into the basement floor and channel to a drain there. (the basement bathroom will also be renovated after this.) It's a catalog house, brand I can't remember right now, built in the 80s.
Lift the insulation a bit and take a picture, the sheet metal cannot possibly be a load-bearing structure on its own. It must rest on something where you can attach new beams.
Edit: Didn't see the OP's new post. Maybe it's a sandwich construction throughout the entire floor, where the particle boards are important for durability?
picture of the old pipe passage with water up to the bathroom, just chips to the ceiling in the basement -> metal stud -> chipboard floor in the bathroom above.
Yes, it feels like the chipboards are doing all the work here. But what do you think about putting up a new layer with 22mm chipboard on top of all this?
