Q:In an earlier column you offered some solutions for sloping floors on an old home with a foundation ("Old home's sloping floors aren't easily fixed," Dec. 28), but we are unsure what to do with the ...

Our frame house is more than 130 years old. Naturally the floors slope a bit (in some cases, more than a bit). We have some pieces of furniture — a sideboard, a few big chairs, a table — that we want ...

Most foundation repair jobs cost between $5,000 to $10,000 in the United States. One of the most common signs of foundation problems is sloping floors. Not all sloping floors are a sign that ...

I am in contract on a high floor of one of the new high-rise Brooklyn towers. I went to look at it recently, and noticed that the floor was slanted. That is, the height of the floor seems to change by ...

Peter Hotton isn’t writing today. Instead we’ll publish one of his Globe Handyman columns from 2001. Q. Some of the floors slope in my condo on the third floor of a triple-decker. The slopes go from ...

Floor fixes in older houses often look great for a year or two, then crack, cup, or sag right back out of level. The problem is rarely the patch itself. It is that you are asking a century old ...

During these hot days of summer, this writer is once again braving the world of remodeling dust and disruption. This new adventure involves an Arts and Crafts style house that hails from 1906. The ...