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?


until you lift the current flooring to reveal the joists, and the reason
for the fall, you can't possibly guestimate the cost.

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.


we had a similar problem, 10cm drop into 1 corner of the back bedroom,
turned out the joists at that end had been replaced (I say replaced,
what I really mean is bodged) by John Wayne and his possy.

take a look...
http://www.mumsaway.com/floors.jpg

note the joist on top of joist (scrap wood really) and lapped (rotten)
joists held together with nails.

I ended up replacing 5 joists and the entire bedroom floor and the
ceiling downstairs.

cost me (because I did all the work except plastering the ceiling) less
than £500


LJ