Summer 2006 and we were all back out at Les Reches to install a first floor in the main barn. We were able to reclaim about 40% of the floor boards that were needed, and quite a few of the floor joists too. I decided to ignore practicality and keep the floor joists as per the original flooring. The joists are essentially larch trees which have two sides squared off, and a rebate cut down the centre line of these 2 sides. The 2" tongue and groove floorboards then sit in this rebate. A second joist is then positioned at the opposite end of the boards with a third joist, squared on its top face only, offered up to the mid point on the underside of the floorboards. The downside to keeping these over engineered joists is that the upper half of the tree protrudes above the level of the floor boards.
Where there wasn't enough original flooring available we installed seasoned sawn larch which James patiently tongue and grooved with a router.
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