Sloping Floors Subsidence

The floor in one of the bedrooms upstairs slopes in one direction and the landing outside seem to slope in the other ie towards the bedroom.

Sloping floors subsidence. There is no subsidence. Floors that slant or slope. Floor slopes and slants are common in old houses. Subsidence is one of the scariest words that can appear on a survey.

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. Except for that slope the floor itself might be flat. Subsidence of part of a building usually occurs as a result of either a fault in the construction or change in ground conditions when movement and opening of cracks in walls and floors can be rapid and extensive requiring more immediate inspection. 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.

Downstairs a partition wall which would have run underneath the landing has been removed. But in most cases the movement will have. Although most floors slope it is important to know how much and why. Doing this gives you a much better picture of where the floor slopes and how much.

Most old buildings show signs of past movement such as wavy brickwork doors trimmed to fit distorted openings or sloping floors with strips of beading concealing gaps at skirting boards. The pyramids and professionals.