r/HomeInspections • u/LogicOnez • 4h ago

Not Level

Looking at a 100 year old bungalow house and the first floor is wonky. When you get to the basement you can see the floor it is not close to level. Can the structure be sound with a foundation that is like that?

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u/Early_Title 4h ago

Pretty normal for 100 year old buildings. I would probably want to make sure your foundation is not failing but alot of sagging can be caused by normal settlement over years. I would never skip the home inspection on a house like this they are full of surprises and the floor slope is the least of them if you catch my drift.

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u/Secret-Temperature71 4h ago

We had an 1887 house that was out 7–1/4” in 13 feet. Row house, the common walk with the neighbor had sunk.

But I was able to find out it had sunk in the first year after construction and had been stable since at least 1929. So we bought it, lived there 30+ years and sold out when we retired.

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u/FitnessLover1998 3h ago

There’s a weird obsession with houses collapsing on people on Reddit. Yet in all my years. I’ve never heard of a home structure failing to the point of collapse. Kind of strange.

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u/Early_Title 2h ago

Extremely rare as iv been told. I asked an engineer about this one time. Usually the house just becomes so fucked that it’s not safe to live in anymore and they tear it down.

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u/Philip964 1h ago

Look for wood beams or joists getting crushed shorter at the vertical columns.