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Need advice regarding sagging second floor

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  • 06-11-2020 5:52pm
    #1
    Mopoperator
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭


    Hi

    I don't know if this is the right section of the forum so please move this if not.

    Should I be worried the second floor of the house I'm staying in which belongs to my dad is creaking in various parts, the doors to the rooms don't close properly and when I took a level to it the bubble in the liquid part did move when placed in various parts of the rooms.

    What should I be concerned about?


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    #2
    Mopoperator
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Mopoperator


    Bump


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    BryanF
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    Get a carpenter to visit.


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    Mopoperator
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Mopoperator


    BryanF wrote: »
    Get a carpenter to visit.

    Thanks for replying others have suggested a structural engineer on Reddit. I'm afraid it's the whole second storey even downstairs door don't close properly.

    Could be the whole house has subsided a bit.

    The house was built in 1983 and only one occupier before bought by my dad who despite my telling him so doesn't seem to have carried out a survey before purchasing. But I was sure the selling agent would have noticed something before selling it.


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    Gumbo
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    Mopoperator wrote: »
    Thanks for replying others have suggested a structural engineer on Reddit. I'm afraid it's the whole second storey even downstairs door don't close properly.

    Could be the whole house has subsided a bit.

    The house was built in 1983 and only one occupier before bought by my dad who despite my telling him so doesn't seem to have carried out a survey before purchasing. But I was sure the selling agent would have noticed something before selling it.

    You first need to work out if it’s the floor boards flexing and creaking or a structural issue.

    The carpenter can remove floorboards etc and check if it’s the timber.


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    Mopoperator
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Mopoperator


    Gumbo wrote: »
    You first need to work out if it’s the floor boards flexing and creaking or a structural issue.

    The carpenter can remove floorboards etc and check if it’s the timber.

    Hi

    Been to the local builders providers and showed various pictures of doors jamming upstairs and downstairs also, they believe that there could be subsidence and I need to get a structural engineer to look at it.

    Any advice or recommendations either for structural engineer or my problem in general.

    Didn't expect the problem on the downstairs doors but there is one.


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    GreeBo
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    If it was subsidence then you should have the same problems downstairs as upstairs, the second storey cant sink on its own.

    When you say doors dont close, are we talking about tight or an inch away from closing?


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    Mopoperator
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Mopoperator


    GreeBo wrote: »
    If it was subsidence then you should have the same problems downstairs as upstairs, the second storey cant sink on its own.

    When you say doors dont close, are we talking about tight or an inch away from closing?

    Sorry forgot to check in for a while.

    I took the leveler on the downstairs floor but it seems to be level, about the doors downstairs ones seem to be closing tightly and stick out from the frame.


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