She carries a great deal of pain
"Why, thank you!", he said to her...
It looks like you did it right. I see how it was sistered. Floor beams can be a problem when plumbers come in and notch out sections to run pipes. It weakens the structure. In these cases, glue and screwing when sistering can help.
Renovation is about compromise with your budget. Uneven floors are not uncommon, not a big deal unless you play marbles. I’ve seen floors jacked up from below, new beams, all very expensive. Sometimes the floor level of one room is higher or lower by a small enough amount to get on your nerves. Plywood sheathing on the floor can fix that.
You start off with what looks like a simple issue. The deeper you dig, the more expensive the solution.
No
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If we were going to have leveled the floors that would have been the very first thing to do. It could takes many months, or longer, depending on just how far the center of the house has settled, to verrrrrrrryyyy slowly jack it up, 1/4" by the 1/4" at a time. Even so, walls and ceilings can (will, mostly likely) start to get cracks in them. After everything is as level as realistically possible, then you start tearing into the renovation work.
The kitchen floor slopes 1 1/2" from one corner to the diagonal corner. The Amish built cabinets were designed to compensate for that, to create level countertops that are at the same height all around
my hat the room.
The inner foyer floor is pretty slanted (the inner foyer door won't fully open), and the landing (not visible in the previous photo I posted of the foyer) at the top of the short run of stairs has about a 1" slant to it and it's only 3' 3" wide (I
just measured it
). Here are a couple of photos of that area. Note the slant underneath the door.
I'm not so sure about your comment regarding playing marbles. Remember, we found one way deep inside the fireplace surround?
Along with a Liberty playing card (Ace of Spades), and a drum stick (the drumming kind, not the fowl kind), although we did find the remains of around six birds in there, as well, so I guess we found a
bunch of drum sticks, so to speak!
Here are some photos of that area after the renovation (very difficult to show well, as it, too, like the outer foyer I should make some photographs of, is a tight area to show in photographs).
(That's not wallpaper on the walls)
It's also tons of fun matching up drywall to original plaster and lath or installing moulding. Square corners with plaster? HA! I laugh in your general direction.
I know a guy (retired, now) who could and has done
just that for us.
La Contessa would love him, he's truly a Dead Head!
