Now the old floors in the dining room and kitchen are up, I also removed a couple of the old pine floor boards for now, the rest later, I have the temporary support beam in between the dining room and kitchen to see if I can straiten it out. It has a little sag in it and this reflects up through to the bedroom floor, we'll try to move it up and if it still has a little sag then it is part of the house and its 100+ year old character.
First I laid the base, 2 2x4's screwed and I had to put it on a 2x6 for more height. I secured them together and to the floor, I don't want anything to move.
ReBecca and I put up the temporary support beam 3 2x6s. It looks off but it is level.
It is in place and everyday I'll give it a little turn to see if I can move it up a bit. The reason for the extra board under the base is the jack posts are good for 8 ½ feet, and with the 2x4's and 2x6's on end I was still a bit short, the joists to the sub-floor is 8 feet 9 inches, I wanted a little room on the jack screws to turn them up.
This is the gap I showed a while ago that was above the header, it isn't touching.
Here is what it looks like today after we started to push up the ceiling, we're up about ¼ inch.
