"Richard Blackwood" wrote in message
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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.

Think about it: how would new floorboards (typical thickness 3/4")
change the height of one end of the floor by 3.5 inches? Sure, you
could level it by fastening packings to the tops of all the joists
first, either tapering in thickness from 3.5" to zero or different
thicknesses on each joist, depending on which way the joists run in
relation to the slope, but it might have some interesting implications
for doorways, stairs, bathroom fittings, fitted furniture, and so on.
Then you'd need to move the skirting boards and re-decorate accordingly.

I think I'd be rather more worried about how the structure of the house
had accommodated such a massive distortion. Are the walls vertical or at
right angles to the floor? Does the ground floor slope, too, and if
not, how has the extra (or reduced) wall height downstairs been
accommodated. Is it still moving? Can you run fast?


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