Got stuck for hours on a weird floor slope in a 1970s split-level

Honestly, I thought it was a standard pad and tack job in this old house in Dayton. The main room looked fine, but the hallway leading to the bedrooms had this crazy slope, like over an inch drop across eight feet. I spent three hours just trying to get the carpet to lay flat without buckling, messing with the pad thickness and stretching from different angles. Ngl, I almost called it and told the homeowner we needed to level the floor first. Anyone else run into a slope that bad and have a better way to handle it?

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umam9519d ago

My buddy had a similar mess in an old ranch house. He ended up cutting the pad into strips and building it up like a ramp.

gray_kim9119d ago

Honestly that ramp idea is genius, I would have just kept stacking pads until it looked like a weird foam staircase. My home repair skills are basically just making a problem more permanent and slightly uglier. I tried to fix a squeaky floorboard once and now that whole corner of the room has a distinct bounce to it. I'm banned from using anything stronger than a roll of tape.

phoenix62519d ago

That's a clever fix for a sloped floor. My own attempts at leveling things usually end with more gaps than before. I have a real talent for making problems slightly worse.