Timeline for How should I air-seal this gap by the floor along an exterior wall?
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| Jan 24, 2018 at 19:27 | comment | added | Shimon Rura | That's not the cause of this gap. This gap is an artifact of the way the floor was installed or modified. This is an exterior wall on the 2nd floor, so the floor joints are nailed into studs and held up by a ledger. The joists here run perpendicular to the baseboard. For this part of the floor to sag there would have to be widespread failure of the attachment between the joists, studs, and rib band. That would be a huge obvious problem and doesn't apply. | |
| Jan 24, 2018 at 17:58 | history | edited | Ken | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added a picture to illustrate my point.
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| Jan 24, 2018 at 17:45 | comment | added | Shimon Rura | The house is balloon framed studs over a parged fieldstone foundation. It is old and has had some settling over 125 years, but is currently structurally sound. This gap has probably existed for decades and may date to whenever this current top layer of flooring was installed (maybe it replaced something that was tighter under the baseboard). | |
| Jan 24, 2018 at 17:33 | history | answered | Ken | CC BY-SA 3.0 |