Q:In an earlier column you offered some solutions for sloping floors on an old home with a foundation ("Old home's sloping floors aren't easily fixed," Dec. 28), but we are unsure what to do with the ...

Our frame house is more than 130 years old. Naturally the floors slope a bit (in some cases, more than a bit). We have some pieces of furniture — a sideboard, a few big chairs, a table — that we want ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to the Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary about renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first one here. They also blog at www.thebrownstoneboys.com. In many ...

Peter Hotton isn’t writing today. Instead we’ll publish one of his Globe Handyman columns from 2001. Q. Some of the floors slope in my condo on the third floor of a triple-decker. The slopes go from ...

Most foundation repair jobs cost between $5,000 to $10,000 in the United States. One of the most common signs of foundation problems is sloping floors. Not all sloping floors are a sign that ...

Q: My family and I live in a small two-story Victorian with a very small kitchen. Attached to the rear of the house is a good-size sleeping porch. It has four walls, a shed roof and a floor that ...