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Cantilevered Plywood Subfloor

Cantilevered Plywood Subfloor

Cantilevered Plywood Subfloor

(OP)
Please don't laugh, but I have a question regarding a very small cantilevered plywood subfloor.  I have a condition where I have a 6" gap between my structure (wood truss) and an adjacent building.  There will be an expansion joint between the two structures, but with a 6" gap, the joint material becomes very expensive.  I'm hoping to cantilever the plywood subfloor out 4" to 5" so that a smaller gap to bridge exists.

The contractor is using the Advantech 3/4" subfloor material.  Does anyone know of any information that is avaiilable to 1) determine whether a plywood panel is allowed to be unsupported at its edge and 2) determine the max cantilever distance.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

RE: Cantilevered Plywood Subfloor

One thing you can do, in my opinion, is to cantilever out some 1x flat members under the plywood, side-by-side (like T&G).
This would 1)thicken the cantilevered board and 2)would give a higher moment of inertia to the section and 3)would support the edge of plywood.

RE: Cantilevered Plywood Subfloor

Is this 5'' - 6'' cantilever carrying any real loads??  Not sure I understand the arrangement.

If no loads --- make sure it is weather protected and just go with it...

RE: Cantilevered Plywood Subfloor

(OP)
Yeah, the plywood would rarely see loads here.  It runs parallel with a corridor (in my building) and an exterior wall of a parking garage.  

To give you a better idea, there's a picture at the link below:

http://home.comcast.net/~ridgetopphoto/IMG_0194_copy.jpg

RE: Cantilevered Plywood Subfloor

As long as it's not a hazard where someone could get their foot stuck in there, I wouldn't worry about it.

RE: Cantilevered Plywood Subfloor

(OP)
The gap has to be closed with an expansion joint materal for a fire rating.  As it is now, you basically have a chimney in which fire can shoot up between the floor system and the adjacent brick/concrete wall.

My reason for cantilevering plywood would be to minimize this gap.  A 6" expansion material runs about $100/LF accorinding to my contractor.

I don't think cantilevering the plywood a couple of inches is a huge deal, but I wanted to get some other thoughts on the matter...thanks everyone!

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