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Flooring "hump" on 2nd floorFrom: grafixintl@aol.com
Category: Structural
Remote Name: 205.188.209.71
Date: 10 Feb 2003
Time: 06:00 PM
CommentsThe warping of my wooden floorboards in a second story bedroom have over the last 10+ plus years have grown into a bed-pillow shaped hump. This is in an 80 year old summer (unheated) cottage near the Poconos.
The hump in the second floor is occuring directly over a first floor exterior wall (where there is a corresponding hump). The house does not have a basement. The original fieldstone piers holding up the house were replaced a few years ago with 52 concrete piers.
Different handymen, etc. over the years have suggested that maybe a boulder underground may be pushing up part of a post where the hump exists. It is the one area of the house's perimeter which has zero crawl space so the exact cause is not known.
The warping actually doesn't seemed to have worsened in the last two or three years but that doesn't make me feel any better.
I really want to remove the hump from the upstairs floor. Do you have any advice?
Thank you so much for considering this problem.
Sincerely,
Emmy
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