Hbarrel
Had a very good contractor over this morning who had previously done a wonderful job building out a home theater for me in my last house, and he actually came up with the same suggestion: to place some x crossbracing materials between the floor joists, and to add another layer of subfloor ontop of the existing one. He says the x braces are metal, however, and this concerns me as it may be attracting stray RF and act as a giant antenna possibly?
He also unfortunately indicated that he'd have to go in from the top as well as the bottom to properly mount the x braces. He also wants to reinforce the spans with microlam and the materials are around $1k alone for that, so it's starting to add up to a fairly expensive project, more so if I decide to take out the carpet and replace it with hardwood.
The good news is that we found some insulation was there, however it is very thin, and even though it says R13 was only a couple of inches thick (?)
He is giving me the day to let me consider what I want to do
Had a very good contractor over this morning who had previously done a wonderful job building out a home theater for me in my last house, and he actually came up with the same suggestion: to place some x crossbracing materials between the floor joists, and to add another layer of subfloor ontop of the existing one. He says the x braces are metal, however, and this concerns me as it may be attracting stray RF and act as a giant antenna possibly?
He also unfortunately indicated that he'd have to go in from the top as well as the bottom to properly mount the x braces. He also wants to reinforce the spans with microlam and the materials are around $1k alone for that, so it's starting to add up to a fairly expensive project, more so if I decide to take out the carpet and replace it with hardwood.
The good news is that we found some insulation was there, however it is very thin, and even though it says R13 was only a couple of inches thick (?)
He is giving me the day to let me consider what I want to do