{"id":1207,"date":"2017-07-25T06:50:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T11:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blocksandspots.synology.me\/wordpress\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2025-07-08T07:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T12:07:55","slug":"how-to-level-an-old-sagging-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blocksandspots.synology.me\/wordpress\/how-to-level-an-old-sagging-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"How to level an old sagging floor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
This project was about leveling a floor in an 1880s Farmhouse that had sagged and sunk on one side till it was about 3 inches lower. After reinforcing the floor joists in the basement, I set about installing 2x4 ribs to fit the sag of the floor. Each rib was scrolled and hand-cut making sure the top was level from the highest end of the room. Then 1x12 heart-of-pine tongue and groove barnboards were installed with authentic cut nails. The finished floor was stained to look weathered and sealed with 2 top coats of polyurethane.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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These 2x4s ribs are 12 inches on center cut to fit the curve of the floor are level on top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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New 1×12 inch heart-of-pine tongue and groove barnboards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Showing the barn boards being installed over the ribs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You can see the 3 inch sag from one side of the room to the other<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Used 2 inch cut nails used to hold down the flooring <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Finished with a custom stain to make the floor looked weathered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sealed with 2 top coats of polyurathane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s how to level a sagging floor and install a rustic wide plank floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Here's a project I did to fix an old sagging floor in an 1880s Farmhouse. ","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[91,18],"tags":[92,29,22,19,21,24,25],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-information","category-projects","tag-barnboards","tag-carpentry","tag-construction","tag-farmhouse","tag-farmhouse-chic","tag-woodworking","tag-woodwow","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blocksandspots.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_6932-1-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blocksandspots.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blocksandspots.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blocksandspots.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blocksandspots.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blocksandspots.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blocksandspots.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2891,"href":"https:\/\/blocksandspots.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/2891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blocksandspots.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blocksandspots.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blocksandspots.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blocksandspots.synology.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}