How should one construct floor joists/top beam/sill for a two-story house, on the short side?

[Bråkis]

Hello,

Träguiden has a great description of how to suggest making the connection (at the exterior wall) for the intermediate floor in a 2-story house, on the long side of the house. That is, where the floor joists enter perpendicularly from the wall.

See here:
http://www.traguiden.se/TGtemplates/popup2spalt.aspx?id=4555&contextPage=5947
See also the 3D image:


So to my question: How is this done on the short side, that is where there is no intermediate floor joist (10 in the picture) to place the new sill (03) on. There, the floor joist runs parallel to the wall.
What do you do then, do you skip placing a new sill and use longer wall studs (06) directly on the old wall plate (05) instead?

Or how should it be done in the best way?

Thanks!
/Bråkis

 

[Matti_75]

Yes, you do exactly as you think. You don't need a Syllen there; the old wall plate constitutes the Syllen for the new wall.

 

[Bråkis]

Great, then I'll look into whether I should change my wall construction on the long sides to be like the example above. In my initial design, all walls are like the short side, meaning the ground floor's top plate is the same as the upper floor's sill. And the floor beams are tightly placed against the wall studs and rest on the top plate.

The only obvious downside to my old solution for the long sides, as far as I can see, is that you need longer wall studs (floor height + thickness of the intermediate floor). Or are there others?

 

[Torpalainen]

Alternatively, let the chipboard flooring extend further out, thus providing support for a new sill.

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