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<blockquote data-quote="guywhofishes" data-source="post: 253302" data-attributes="member: 337">There's a hallway running north/south on the north half of the basement. Same upstairs (although not perfectly aligned).Main floor joists run east west.The entire basement is listing east/west by maybe 1.5&quot;... but the west half, both upstairs and downstairs, accounts for at least an inch of the drop to the west.There's a north/south oriented support beam on the south side of the basement (it's a great room where there's no hallway or other rooms to help hold the floor up)The &quot;east half&quot; of the main floor is pretty good from east toward that center support I-beam... the west half is where it really drops. The skanky old suspended ceiling in the basement is gone so it's wide open. So I am pondering whether I could loosen up the flooring on the main level and sliding additional joists in along the original ones to hold up just the flooring... basically sliding 2x8s alongside the 2x10 or (2x12's?) Get them in level (1&quot; higher on west end than the originals), holding up the flooring. Use construction adhesive and screws to attach the &quot;extension joists&quot; to the originals - in order to achieve proper &quot;lift&quot; of the flooring on the low end by the necessary 1 to 1.5&quot;. Everything else stays in place. Screw the flooring to the extension joists rather than the originals.I can't imagine leveling compound is up to the task of 1 or 1.5&quot; leveling - is it?I should have taken shop class. : (- - - Updated - - -ba ha ha - what Educator said!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="guywhofishes, post: 253302, member: 337"] There's a hallway running north/south on the north half of the basement. Same upstairs (although not perfectly aligned). Main floor joists run east west. The entire basement is listing east/west by maybe 1.5"... but the west half, both upstairs and downstairs, accounts for at least an inch of the drop to the west. There's a north/south oriented support beam on the south side of the basement (it's a great room where there's no hallway or other rooms to help hold the floor up) The "east half" of the main floor is pretty good from east toward that center support I-beam... the west half is where it really drops. The skanky old suspended ceiling in the basement is gone so it's wide open. So I am pondering whether I could loosen up the flooring on the main level and sliding additional joists in along the original ones to hold up [B]just [/B]the flooring... basically sliding 2x8s alongside the 2x10 or (2x12's?) Get them in level (1" higher on west end than the originals), holding up the flooring. Use construction adhesive and screws to attach the "extension joists" to the originals - in order to achieve proper "lift" of the flooring on the low end by the necessary 1 to 1.5". Everything else stays in place. Screw the flooring to the extension joists rather than the originals. I can't imagine leveling compound is up to the task of 1 or 1.5" leveling - is it? I should have taken shop class. : ( [COLOR=silver][SIZE=1]- - - Updated - - -[/SIZE][/COLOR] ba ha ha - what Educator said! [/QUOTE]

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