Slowly jack up the floor.
How to jack up a floor.
Make sure that the lumber or lally posts are perpendicular when jacking or they may slip out of position.
Raise each jack by 1 8 inch at a time this will help to reduce any damage to window frames and plaster or drywall walls above the floor.
A plywood subfloor will bridge any minor waves in the existing floor and leveling compound would help too.
By jacking up the ceiling of the basement you.
Place support of the floor joists with wood studs.
Use a hammer a nail puller and a sledgehammer to remove the existing underpinning wood post and nails.
Place a jack on the inside edge of each outside footing.
You will have to make sure your joists can handle the addition of considerably more weight from the plywood subfloor and any floor coverings.
A taut string stretched across the floor will show the amount of deflection and improvement.
Shows raisinge a sagging floor gradually with bottle jacks.
Use a string to watch the floor come up.
When this happens stop hoisting the jack and lock it in place.
A common scenario is to install temporary jack posts and support beams then permanent posts and beams over new footings.
Use a hydraulic jack and a short post to shore up the floor during this process.
The 4 inch lally posts can be replaced by 6 x 6 inch lumber.
Continue to raise the jack until you feel some resistance.
Underneath the floor in a crawl space or basement position the floor jack or jacks and place the beam in position.
Center the screw jack below the girder and on top of the wood block on the concrete pier.
Carefully hoist the jack until the beam reaches the floor underneath.
Once the new joists were up we found locations where the concrete blocks could sit flat on the ground so the pressure wouldn t cause them to crack.
On the top side of the floor another fix it idea to lay down new hardwood over the existing floor.