How To Level Your House Floor

With a taut string water or laser level make a straight line from one side of the foundation to the other.

How to level your house floor.

If your house is sagging or uneven due to sinking foundations then you can use a jack to raise the house back up to level. Place heavy duty floor jacks under the low spots. While few of us are interested in jacking up an entire house complete with cribs girders timbers and everything else you need in order to lift a house off the ground there are a number of foolhardy souls among us who feel the need to jack up a portion of the house in order to insert an extra tier or beam for repairs or to level an old sloping floor. Check the level again.

Place your level in several different spots as you did before to get a more accurate reading of the floor s overall slope. All you re going to need is to find the location of the sagging beams and to bring them back to level with a house jack many of which are built for hundreds of tons. Jacking can mean different things. Assign a person to each jack and raise the jacks slowly and at the same time until the spirit level shows the house is level.

A plywood subfloor will bridge any minor waves in the existing floor and leveling compound would help too. Determine how far the middle of the house needs to be lifted. On the top side of the floor another fix it idea to lay down new hardwood over the existing floor. Check to ensure that the product you purchase is compatible with your floor.

The level shouldn t be off by more than 3 16 inch 0 48 cm any minor deviations you happen to discover shouldn t impact the stability of the finished floor. Lay a long level downhill on the floor with one end of the level on the level part of the floor and the other end at the lowest point. This type of floor leveling is diy friendly and costs approximately 1 50 per square foot when applied 1 8 inch thick. Run a line outside the house and mark the low spots in the foundation.