Parlour Restoration Done!

[Itchinfilth]

9 months of slow progress and another room rid of tonnes of cement and gypsum from flags, timber and stonework and our parlour / dining room is completed.
I'll get a pic of the medieval fireplace out of shot if anyone is interested in that kind of thing.

 

[Flyfisher]

Well that's looking rather fabulous! Congratulations indeed. This is precisely why all those months of hard slog are eventually worthwhile. Any yes, of course we're interested in the fireplace!

Interesting 'noggins' between the ceiling joists. I've never seen anything like that before and am wondering why they are there. I'm assuming the floorboards above are all nailed/screwed down and therefore preventing the joists from moving, so I don't understand why those 'noggings' are required or what they are supposed to be doing.

 

[Itchinfilth]

Well that's looking rather fabulous! Congratulations indeed. This is precisely why all those months of hard slog are eventually worthwhile. Any yes, of course we're interested in the fireplace!

Interesting 'noggins' between the ceiling joists. I've never seen anything like that before and am wondering why they are there. I'm assuming the floorboards above are all nailed/screwed down and therefore preventing the joists from moving, so I don't understand why those 'noggings' are required or what they are supposed to be doing.

The boards above are still nailed in after 500 or so years but there is some movement in them . The floor above is very interesting to walk on and all the furniture is at mad angles which we are fine with. Makes me chuckle when people mention correcting minor slopes on here, they'd have a heart attack seeing mine!
I'll get a photo of the fireplace, it's quite unique.

 

[Cubist]

I used a tennis ball to guide the initial identification of the high spots of the master bedroom floor here before mapping the location, run direction and relative height of every joist and beam.

Those noggins do look odd, are they rebated into the joists?

 

[Itchinfilth]

I used a tennis ball to guide the initial identification of the high spots of the master bedroom floor here before mapping the location, run direction and relative height of every joist and beam.

Those noggins do look odd, are they rebated into the joists?

No, they aren't rebated. Definitely not period to the original construction as the rest of the timbers are all chamfered with fancy stops.