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Posted by on December 11, 2006, 3:40 pm
Thanks for your response.
Malcolm Hoar wrote:
maflatoun@gmail.com wrote:
> >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 titles (each spanning 15
> >titles). 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.
>
> It sounds very stable. One good thing about tiles... they'll
> soon reveal any further movement. I wouldn't worry about it
> unless you start to see new cracks appearing.
>
> I suspect the installer just did a lousy job of getting the
> floor level before laying the tiles. It the sag was caused
> by movement, I'd expect to see significant cracking of the
> tiles and grout.
>
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