Let\u2019s say that you see your child\u2019s ball rolling across the living room floor towards the wall \u2013 seemingly on its own. Most likely, it\u2019s not the action of a poltergeist, but simply the result of a floor that sags towards the interior wall. It\u2019s not unusual for some sagging of the floor to occur in older houses as they settle over the years. However, a very pronounced sag may mean that you have a problem with the center support beam in the basement, or with the columns holding up that beam.<\/p>\n
Depending on the age of your house, the support beam may be a solid piece of wood, a laminated beam made from 2\u201dx12\u201d planks, or a steel I-beam. You will usually find it near the middle of the basement, supporting the floor joists.\u00a0 (Read more….<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s say that you see your child\u2019s ball rolling across the living room floor towards the wall \u2013 seemingly on its own. Most likely, it\u2019s not the action of a poltergeist, but simply the result of a floor that sags towards the interior wall. It\u2019s not unusual for some sagging of the floor to occur […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repair-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrrc-ch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}