Are Slanted Floors Expensive to Repair
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Anyone have slanting floors and how did you fix them?
Comments (6)You will find many old homes around here with one room where the floor slants terribly. It usually ends up being a kitchen or a bath added when running water became available and the facilities were moved inside and the outhouse torn down. The reason it slants is often that the room has been at one time an exterior porch and then enclosed for more room. The porch floor had been sloped intentionally to allow for rain run-off to preserve the floor boards. There are various ways to fix a sloping floor, and jacking up beams may or may not accomplish it, depending on where the sagging area is located and how bad it is. We installed additional new beams in one area of our house, because the old ones were simply logs, with the bark still attached and started to fail after two hundred years. It didn't do much to lift the floor up to the level of the other floors, so we put in more joists, a new subfloor, and a new floor over it. In other rooms, a floor jack worked, and in still other rooms, we took the floor completely out, including the old beam joists and started from scratch with new beams. There is no pat answer....See MoreCeramic floor expensive disaster!
Comments (13)Structural issues need to either be corrected (with appropriate modifications to the house's framing) or taken into account (by using an uncoupling membrane, for example) before any tile is set. What made it even worse is the use of a large format tile. The larger the tile, the less ability the installation has to cope with any movement within the floor structure. The movement or deflection problem itself may not be "the fault" of your installer. Your structural issues are "the fault" of the person who designed or built the house, or the person who failed to maintain the house. It all depends on why the house is moving. But your tile installer is 100% at fault for failing to properly take into consideration the structural issues when he tiled the floor. He may not have known what the problem was, but by the house being off-kilter, he knew there was a problem. And he failed to properly address it. His methods were wrong. His materials were wrong. To move forward, you need to have the problem properly diagnosed. You need to find out why your house settled, and if whole-house movement is still occurring. There is a chance the house has stabilized, but your tiler's method created too much dead load on the floor platform itself. Example, the house itself may be stabilized and not settling anymore, but the tiler simply overloaded the joists with his mud installation and the joists can't handle the additional load. So only the joists and the floor are flexing/moving but not the house as a whole....See Moreinstalling crown molding on kitchen cabinets w/ a slanting floor
Comments (6)Please hire a Pro immediately. You are going about this completely incorrectly. Thinset is NEVER used to build up thickness. Ever. The fact that the floor is out of level doesn’t mean the ceiling is too, but if it is, your Kitchen Designer will have about a half dozen different ways of dealing with that, depending on the site and needs. The #1 thing that needs to happen before anything else is that you get in a knowledgeable contractor, or preferably a structural engineer. You need to know WHY your floor is so out of level. A 3” drop is HUGE. And that indicates an underlying issue that needs attention before anything else happens....See MoreLaminate flooring - where to find or how to repair
Comments (15)SJ McCarthy, there's a bit more damage along the nosing but yes, that's the main part. I'm not a fan of runners so I may just have to keep looking up instead of at the steps, and encourage others to do the same. it's just a bit painful to see something that was pristine get damaged. But thanks. HU-554207724 - kind of hard not to do these stairs as they flow into the living room and then up a couple more steps into the kitchen (bi-level). And back when I did it, this was a better option than hardwood (for me at the time). Yes, I've taken the nosing for comparisons, and it seems that it's the width that's the problem. We actually got one that was close colour (wrong grain) match and discovered it was too narrow (not sure why he didn't notice since he had a piece of the nosing with him). From what they and my carpenter say, there are only a couple of companies that make nosings and apparently the material, style and width are different. This means we'd have to do all the nosings and we'd need more floor planks to replace the ones under/close to the nosing. Since these seemed to have been glued I can't even swap piece from another step with this one. G & S - the carpenter said that it likely wouldn't stay long-term given that it's right at the edge so he didn't want to try. As sad as it makes me, after investing in upgrading my home over time, unless I can miraculously find the same flooring or nosing, I may have to let the contractor off the hook....See Morenewenglandbuilder
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