Rotten/eaten sill plate + stud. How to replace?

[Lindamyz]

Hello,

We have encountered some rotten wood in our timber-framed house. Not much, but in a few places. Not so that we need to replace the entire piece.

But how do we best repair this? It's a timber-framed house built in the early 1800s, and the walls in between are built of natural stone and clay.

We don't want the wall to collapse, but we also don't think the part we need to remove is load-bearing.

See the image below.

Tips?

 

[oceanis]

In a half-timbered house, it is almost always the wooden frame that is load-bearing in all its parts. The masonry in between and inside the wooden frame normally has no load-bearing function, so I believe that what you show in your pictures is indeed load-bearing.

What is visible in the top picture seems to be the sill and post/stanchion, and this is absolutely load-bearing in the house's construction.

But everything can be repaired, and a half-timbered house is a structure that can be relatively easily repaired; it just requires patience and time.

I have previously referred to a good film that shows a repair that is probably quite similar to what you are facing. It is in Danish, but the carpenter/tømmermanden speaks clear and good Danish, so it is easy to understand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOwq0rcx7XA