On 06/10/2011 12:09, Hugo Nebula wrote:
[Default] On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:37:00 +0100, a certain chimpanzee,
"george , randomly hit the
keyboard and wrote:

A 3 inch notch in a 4 inch beam which supports a lot of floor and a wall?

http://www.dicegeorge.com/psb/psimg/...otched167m.jpg

Am I missing something? The bits of timber with the deep notch look
like noggins, albeit very chunky noggins. It appears that the joists
run counter to the wall as one can see by the direction of the boards
& the laths.

Lift my bedroom floorboards and you will see something very similar.
Major beams 9" x 6" and transverse beams 4" x 3". Downstairs all you see
is the bottom 4" of the major beams although when the house was built
what would have been seen was both sets of beams and the painted
underside of the floorboards.

The two transverse beans on the left of the picture do not appear to be
continuous. Indeed the far left one appears to have an offset at the
middle of the major beam.

--
Roger Chapman