"Richard Blackwood" wrote in message
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I know this may be another 'How long is a piece of string' type question
but
I thought I'd try to get a rough idea here before asking carpenters to
come
around.

I have a 3 bed terraced house with sloping floors - about 3.5 inches over
roughly14 feet (the width of the house). My cousin who knows more than I
about these things says it should cost no more than £600 for a carpenter
to
take the old floorboards up and put new, level ones down. I was expecting
much more but admit to being quite clueless wrt diy/houses etc.

Is £600 roughly in the ball park?

Also, is there any risk of incurring damage to the downstairs artexed
ceilings if I get a carpenter in to do this job? Money is real tight and
I
dont want to solve a problem upstairs only to face new ones downstairs.

Help much appreciated.

Replacing the floor boards won't cure the slope, this is caused by
subsidence. The joists need realigning thats a big job as the rooms
concerned will Need redecorating as well as some replastering etc. etc. we
are talking thousands if the whole house needs this work you are talking
about a major rebuild.
On the other hand you could take up the floor boards and have a timber
merchant make tapered pieces of wood to fit on top of the joists and level
the floor this way ( same as the tapered wood on flat roofs to give fall).
But, a big but, this OK if the slope is away from the door if this is the
case go for it, if not forget it.

The above is for first floor, ground floor is different where you can remove
the floor and start from scratch rebuilding the dwarf walls etc. realigning
the floor would be simple but not cheap unless you could do the job yourself
one room at a time even so it will cost money. you could get a small builder
to do it one who can do rudimentary carpentry and brick laying a
prerequisite I would have though. Get quotes before going any futher.

MikeS