Hi,
I want to have bare floorboards on my ground floor. I have a large crawl space underneath my 1939 terraced house.
I recently took out fireplace and put a skirting on (see picture). The skirting board is almost plumb, if anything it’s going with the slope a little bit.
The rest of the floor is level.
as you can see in the pic, the boards to the right are almost an inch higher. It looks very noticeable.
so I suspected rotten joists (they run forward and back, not side to side)
just got boards up and the joists are fine. Beautiful, no rot, they are oak and look lovely. The crawl space is so dry it’s mummified.
the concrete in the middle is the chimney breast. It looks like it might slope a bit?
From the right side, the floor slopes down slightly but just at the chimney breast bit into the concrete.
It slopes away left a bit after as well. Only a tiny bit.
the house is on a slope and it’s going with the slope.
this is not happening at any other part of the floor. There is a room to the left which is totally level
I just can’t work out what’s going on.
House settling? Poor work when it was built? As I say, level on the rest of the floor is pretty much plumb level everywhere.
I guess I can rip off the skirting and just sand the boards on the right down till they are level? I’d really like to understand what’s going on though.
can anyone explain what it is, or what to look for underneath to see what might be happening?
thanks
I want to have bare floorboards on my ground floor. I have a large crawl space underneath my 1939 terraced house.
I recently took out fireplace and put a skirting on (see picture). The skirting board is almost plumb, if anything it’s going with the slope a little bit.
The rest of the floor is level.
as you can see in the pic, the boards to the right are almost an inch higher. It looks very noticeable.
so I suspected rotten joists (they run forward and back, not side to side)
just got boards up and the joists are fine. Beautiful, no rot, they are oak and look lovely. The crawl space is so dry it’s mummified.
the concrete in the middle is the chimney breast. It looks like it might slope a bit?
From the right side, the floor slopes down slightly but just at the chimney breast bit into the concrete.
It slopes away left a bit after as well. Only a tiny bit.
the house is on a slope and it’s going with the slope.
this is not happening at any other part of the floor. There is a room to the left which is totally level
I just can’t work out what’s going on.
House settling? Poor work when it was built? As I say, level on the rest of the floor is pretty much plumb level everywhere.
I guess I can rip off the skirting and just sand the boards on the right down till they are level? I’d really like to understand what’s going on though.
can anyone explain what it is, or what to look for underneath to see what might be happening?
thanks
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