Wall not aligned correctly?!

daivid

Whilst 2cm over a small distance is poor, as others have said if there are no signs of recent movement I see no reason for alarm. My house is of a very similar age, going round with a laser level would be far from a pleasing experience. In fact I could probably get to double figures finding things out of true by eye alone - slightly wavy ceilings, brick courses, internal walls slightly off perpendicular or parallel... There is no evidence however that this is anything other than the way the house has always been, and the house seems entirely solid and secure.

maninthestreet

surely it's the ceiling that isn't straight?

TheCyclingProgrammer

The ceiling and window frame seem parallel to me. The reveal is badly plastered.

[Deleted User]

My neighbour came knocking at the door a while ago because he'd discovered that the garden wall was about two inches off a line square with the front of the house. It's only about a degree out, and it seemed to satisfy him when I pointed out that the rooms in the house are further out of square than that.

teneighty wrote: »

Surely that is a typo....20mm perhaps?

If it's not a typo, that doorway is about 28' wide and 70' high.

Strider590 wrote: »

Mine was built in 75, I don't have much in the way of wonky walls, but it took me 4 hours to hang each new door due to the door frames being so badly built, literally 2 inches wider at the tops than the bottoms..... The missus thought I was just being lazy until I got her to help me hang a couple of them.

The frame of my French window has a double bend in the side opposite the hinge. It's only a few millimetres, but it took all day to plane a matching curve accurately enough to stop it from looking as if I couldn't plane in a straight line. It was the same making the back of the worktop fit the kitchen wall.