The Floor With Visibly Sloped Areas

For rooms that have a general slope the issue may be foundation problems that require the assistance of a foundation repair company or a general contractor.

The floor with visibly sloped areas.

Sloped floors are common in older homes and even in homes as new as 15 to 30 years. Make sure that the edges of your carpet are firmly tacked. Floors are rarely perfectly level. High areas in the floor are called heaves and low areas are called dips if you don t have any marbles handy you can check for dips and heaves with an eight foot carpenter s level.

Sloping floors are most often caused by normal and acceptable deflection bend in the wood joists which comprise the floor structure. This will prevent bunching and creasing as the carpet ages. To even out exceptionally deep low spots and slopes cut extra pieces of the padding to size and stack them up in the low spot. If the area is very large use a long straight 2 in 4 in 5 1 cm 10 2 cm board and set your level on top of it.

Once you know the roof slope multiplier for a particular slope you can use it to find the actual area of any size sloped roof with the same slope. The average person can sense if a floor slopes 1 inch in 10 feet and sloping floors or sagging floors are often one of the warning signs that structural engineers look for when analyzing a house. If floor sloping is limited to the first story of the house that is there is no corresponding slope to the 2nd story floor then the reason could be missing support posts and damaged joists. A slant slope situation might be one where over the course of 15 or 20 horizontal feet the floor slopes down one or two inches.

So in this case for every 12 inches the roof goes across horizontally b while rising 6 inches a there s actually 13 416 inches of roof c. Shower floors laundry areas entryways garage floors and patios are all areas where the floor may have a drain built in to help the floor drain water to a. To get the best results use a carpet pad and glue it to the floor in areas around dips and valleys. However if the second floor slopes along with the first floor then there could be a more serious structural cause such as foundation damage or settlement.

Although most floors slope it is important to know how much and why. Except for that slope the floor itself might be flat. In some cases the slope is caused or aggravated by similar deflection in the girder main bearing beam that supports one end. If the floor is uneven lift up the board until it is level so you ll know how much flooring compound you ll need to even it out.