Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Likely if anything to be the very best timber of its type.

Bwahahah!


Best material is reserved for planed, not rough sawn. No building regs
in victorian times either. If it didn't fall down, it sold.

Structural timber has always been chosen to be knot free. Not so
floorboards.

What planet are you on? Is this a new Drivel sock puppet?


And it's reasonable to assume any Victorian joists still around came from
somewhere that didn't fall down - or at least not due to joists failing.

I'm wondering if you have any experience of this sort of timber?


Pulled enough of it totally rotten out of this house.

And others.

PLENTY of knots in it.


The only thing you can say, is that if it hadn't fallen down, it wasn't
total rubbish.