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Originally Posted by Chubosco
Joists always run the OPPOSITE WAY when you walk through the FRONT DOOR. So if you walk in through the door from the south your joists are overhead running east and west. If you walk in from the west, your joists run from south and north.
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Chubosco has a 50% chance of being right. The other rules of thumb have a better chance of being right. The thing is, not even the blueprints are a sure thing. Very rarely, I've seen where due to some unforseen reason some of the floor joists have to run the other way than planned. And that brings up the subject that in some house plans, the joists run at different directions in different parts of the same floor level. When I added on to my house, I doubled the joists
that ran along the wall, in case I would ever want to put a tank there. For years we had a 135 on that wall with no problems. If I hadn't done that, I could have built a stand that ran from one end of the wall to the other. That would spread the weight if built for that purpose, and the rest of the stand could hold plants, books, etc.