"Rob Morley" wrote in message
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The house is a semi from the 30's if it's any help and a bad ascii
diagram below shows the setup of the joists

You need to use a fixed width font like Courier to make ASCII art work.


I think the OP posted this in plain text so the choice of font is yours.

In OE: ViewText sizefixed font

should make it all happen.