Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Dec 12, 2006 6:47 am Hi,
We bought our house last year and a friend of mine pointed out our sagging floors just in the main entrance area (First floor on top of the basement). There are around 5 rows of tiles (each spanning 15 tiles). The first row closest to the living room is perfectly straight while the second row has a slight downward slope all the way to the last row closest to the kitchen (less than 1/2 inch depth). It looks like it has stablized and it's not sagging any more. Both the living room and our kitchen area is perfectly leveled. Our house is around 18 years old and the tiles don't have any crack or loose grout (except in some parts as a result of poor tiling). What I want to know is that is this a bad tiling job? or sagging? Also if it has stablized do I need to worry about it? It's not noticable at all. BTW, also there is height fluctuation between floor and the baseboards anywhere from 0-1/4 inches. Thanks Maz Re: Sagging floor less than 1/2 inch in 6 feet 2Dec 12, 2006 9:02 am sounds like there has been movement in your first floor subframe.
I'm not overly familiar with building specifications over there, but I would note the levels and monitor it. If there is a further variation, I'd be lifting the tiles/floor and sorting it out. Re: Sagging floor less than 1/2 inch in 6 feet 3Dec 12, 2006 9:17 am It depends what your tiles are laid on. I would presume they are on top of cement sheet, but what is underneath that. I'm in the middle of renovating my bathroom, and when I pulled the tiles and cement sheet up, found that there was no floor underneath in a fairly large area where the shower had been leaking. We had just been walking on tiles with little support, and there was no sign of tiles moving or distortion of any kind.
I'm NOT saying that this is your problem, but I would certainly be trying to ascertain the condition of the main floor structure. If all you can see are obstacles, you have lost sight of the goals Re: Sagging floor less than 1/2 inch in 6 feet 4Dec 12, 2006 11:46 am how thick was the cement sheet Neil? Re: Sagging floor less than 1/2 inch in 6 feet 6Dec 12, 2006 4:11 pm wow must have been a bit of a trampoline Re: Sagging floor less than 1/2 inch in 6 feet 7Dec 12, 2006 6:46 pm To be honest, we didn't notice. The hole underneath is about a metre and a half long, but only about 250mm or two floor boards wide, right at the spot where you put one foot out of the shower. One of the joists underneath is damaged, but that's as far as I've looked so far. Not going to pull anything else apart yet until all of the new stuff is on site. I'm going to take a few progress pics when I get right into the reno and put them on here and maybe we can all learn something. If all you can see are obstacles, you have lost sight of the goals Re: Sagging floor less than 1/2 inch in 6 feet 8Dec 12, 2006 8:45 pm I'm relocating our laundry to a different part of the house in our reno. I considered laying ceramic-tile underlay over the yellow-tongue, but ended up ripping it all up and putting down 18mm compressed fibre cement - its piece of mind I guess. I laid a screed over it last week and am tiling the floor this Sunday. Re: Sagging floor less than 1/2 inch in 6 feet 9Dec 12, 2006 10:13 pm Can't beat that sort of peace of mind. When I do get around to the floor, I'm going to be putting a membrane in. Back when this place was built there was no such thing so it can only be an improvement. If all you can see are obstacles, you have lost sight of the goals Re: Sagging floor less than 1/2 inch in 6 feet 10Dec 13, 2006 11:22 am Yeah I waterproofed the whole room before laying the screed - it even passed the council stage inspection with flying colours at most it will have a short lintel which could be moved up just below the ceiling or even above. Above means you need to patch the cornice and might need to deal with… 2 61375 interesting situation what happened after builder issued final invoice? did you list as defect or not does the building surveyor have any responsibility? ie. issuing… 13 46960 CDC Housing Code 3 When to apply Floor Area external face of wall vs Gross Floor Area internal face of wall. Reading thru CDC Housing Code 3, lets take a lot 915sqm.… 0 16559 |