springy floors?

[Ricparr]

Hi,

We live in an 1870s Victorian terraced property in Leeds. Our main bedroom's floor is springy, i.e when you shift around you can hear items in the room vibrate. Several floorboards creak, and the floor slants down towards the middle of the room by a few inches towards where the bed is (and I'm not that fat). There are no cracks or anything on the ceiling in the room below.

I was wondering what the problem might be, how it would generally be fixed, and how much I should expect to pay. The room is about 4 metres width and perhaps 5-6 metres deep, with a chimney stack running down one side.

Any thoughts would be very much appreciated

Thank you.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

The timbers are likely just undersized, it's not uncommon in older properties and is usually not a problem. Unless it suddenly started to get worse.

 

[Whitespirit66]

Sounds like the 'character' people are always banging on about when they pay over the odds for old houses/money pits.

 

[noseall]

Sounds like the 'character' people are always banging on about when they pay over the odds for old houses/money pits.

As opposed to the way overpriced, pants-built, characterless new ones eh?

 

[Whitespirit66]

Sounds like the 'character' people are always banging on about when they pay over the odds for old houses/money pits.

As opposed to the way overpriced, pants-built, characterless new ones eh?

Old Victorian and new-build properties aren't the only types of housing available.

 

[bernardgreen]

Old Victorian and new-build properties aren't the only types of housing available.

500 year old, now that is housing......

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Old Victorian and new-build properties aren't the only types of housing available.

500 year old, now that is housing......

.....and just as likely to have jerry building techniques in my experience

 

[Ricparr]

Thankd guys, and yes it is a money pit - but I like it well enough [/list]

 

[ladylola]

Several years ago I worked at Wollaton Hall in Nottingham on a decidedly dodgy floor. The Prospect room is situated above the great hall and had sagged quite considerably , ok so it took a few hundred years but in the fifties it had moved to such a degree that it was closed and huge steel things resembling bailey bridges had been put in above the floor and the floor slung from it. As I recall it had sagged by around 8" in the centre of the room.
We put stainless steel angled plates , 16mm thick , on all joints and the deflection was made up using a specialist ply which had the grain all running the same way cut to fit and glued and screwed to the tops of the existing timbers. Voids were filled with a timber resin and once the steel work was released a layer of 25mm ply was put over the entire floor and new oak boards on top of that.
I can't find a picture of it prior to the work but here's one afterwards
https://www.flickr.com/photos/browniebear/1031971959/in/set-72157633423406240
In some respects it has lost a bit of character but ho hum