pennsicdance: Status Reports for Flooring

[Matthew Fleming]

> if we go with 2x2 sections, we could probably get away with .5
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> (lighter/less expensive overall)

I don't know that the cross pieces are necessary -- houses have pretty
sturdy floors, and they have (pretty much) only joists running every
16 inches.  So something like

+-+-+-+-+-+-+           +----------+       _____________
| | | | | | |           +----------+       |__|________|
| | | | | | |    or     +----------+  or   |_____|_____|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+           +----------+       |________|__|
Fig. 1                  Fig. 2             Fig. 3

should be sufficient.  (Unless there's something I really don't know
about housing construction.)  I think the 4 foot braces would be
slightly sturdier than the 8 foot ones, but more work.  Or 8 foot
braces with a few smaller cross pieces between joists to help maintain
square.

Cheers,
Matt
-- 
Matthew D. Fleming                   http://www.cs.cornell.edu/fleming
Dancer, gamer, Macintosh and Linux fan.         fleming at cs.cornell.edu

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