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Bowing floors-Two directions

From: bgthornton@msn.com
Category: Structural
Remote Name: 67.249.196.243
Date: 02 Jun 2003
Time: 03:52 PM

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I am an architect that is consulting a client in 'freshening" her 80 year-old home in Northern Virginia. We are concerned that this center hall colonial has bowing floors beneath the walls that are parallel to the hall. In the openings into the side parlours, the floor has a 2" plus camber in the cased openings that we would like to eliminate. Our suspicions are that the bearing walls were not properly supported. Can this be corrected by a house jacking procedure, and/or a combination of reinforced bridging in the floor deck below? It is all wood framing over a concrete slab. The four piers that exist are masonry.

 

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