harry wrote:
On Jan 12, 11:47 pm, "Cash"
wrote:
GMM wrote:
Well well well....If I'd known it was going to cause such
controversy I would have thought of a different way to ask the
question!!

Let everyone be assured that the house won't fall down because it
has a straight floor and by the time I'm finished it will be
stronger than it was to start with. That, of course, wasn't the
question: I was simply after some suggestions for how I might do a
decent job of cutting the top straight!

I might have to do some off site experiments and see what 'feels'
best between Jim K's power plane, Ghostrecon's router and dennis's
guided saw, though I suspect that whatever I use will be a bit of a
bugger all the way along a joist. I would replace it as suggested
but that would mean I'd have to rewire half the house as pretty
much every cable in the house goes through this joist.

Cheers people

You're welcome GMM.

If you go ahead and decide to cut the joist, have you thought of
using a very sharp axe, cutting with the grain to 'knock' most of
the waste off - and then finish off to the correct height using the
electric planer or even a sharp hand plane?

Just to perhaps cause a little more controversy with one or two here
- if you could get hold of an old adze, that would be even better,
as you could stand up and do the job, and with a sharp tool and a
little bit of practice, get an almost plane-like finish for a
lot-less effort.

Just wear a pair of steel toecapped shoes and shin-pads though while
you're learning. :-)

All the best with a bugger of a job, and let us know how you get on.

Cash- Hide quoted text -

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Using an adze is highly skilled and not easy to learn, I have tried
one out..
If all nails are pulled, about ten minutes with an electric plane.

Harry,

Then you had a poor instructor!

Cash