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This floor is a ground floor and yes the joists are 4x2 ones, which each end of each joist sits in a pocket of the brickwork.

Thanks Markie for that. Noggin it I will as you say. I assume 2x2 will do for that will it? Thanks

Following my initial posting and replies regarding my sloping kitchen floor, I have found out from another source that the 4x2 joists need packed up with pieces of slate placed underneath in their pockets of the brickwork. So this information being correct, this is what I am going to do. One...

Static, yes I realize it needs to be more stable, as that was my original intention years ago, by putting the supports underneat. I forgot to mention in my previous post that there are no noggins at all between any of the joists, if this is part of the problem??? How do I add new joists...

Ok, just been underneath the kitchen floor, and I'm sweating cobbs! Now I see how it is: All the joists run parallel to the rear outside wall, so that means that the bump actually starts from the 3rd joist in from the internal wall. I remember now, because the new floor was...

That doesn't sound good! But pardon me for saying so, if it were subsidence, which I am not doubting, wouldn't the floor be flat all the way, ie the fall would start at an internal wall, so the joists would fall from the next internal support. Having a bump in the floor which starts at about...

Moz, that I wouldn't know until I lifted one of the 8x2 boards. Just a thought now: I can get down under that floor, so I maybe could see what was wrong, if anything, from underneath??? The bump runs the full width of the kitchen: 2.2 mtrs

Thanks for the replies. I have just checked the slope, and I see that there is a bump in the floor at about 24inches from an inside wall running parallel with bot that wall and the opposite external wall. With a 2mtr, 4x2 lenght of roughcut timber on the floor, I could then see the bump, and...

Our existing kitchen floor has been replaced before we moved in to the property some years ago, and I can't help but notice that there is quite a slope on it. The original floor was the usual T&G planks/boards, but for whatever reason, they were pulled out and replaced by the 8x2 floorboards...