Vinyl flooring not level

jack000

I think the misunderstanding arose for a number of reasons.

Firstly, I haven't actually moved into the house yet. So while there were carpets, I hardly ever looked at them, and they do a fairly good job at hiding these sort of issues anyway.

Then, due to cultural differences (and I am happy to take the blame since I am the foreigner here), there is a mismatch between my expectations and the ones of the average British homeowner. I don't expect floor fitters to sort out problems with the house, God forbid, but in my country houses with such defects couldn't even be conceived let alone actually built, so I initially assumed the poor floor fitters were at fault. My bad.

Lastly, even when I got convinced the problem was in fact with the house itself, I couldn't understand why they didn't tell me ("look, either you accept there's going to be a slope or your sort it out by calling a carpenter - if you agree to continue then you can't be a !!!! if the result is not perfect"). And the answer, again, is shockingly simple yet incredible for me: their own houses are like mine so they've stopped noticing and reporting stuff like that.

Many lessons learned, and I thank you guys for getting back to me so quickly. I appreciate.

The user called Spank made me chuckle, and I guess he/she better than anyone else whom I talked with so far expresses the great divide in attitude and expectations between me and someone considered normal for the standards of this place. But his/her question misses the point. If building and decorating were only about function, then why would we bother having, say, walls of different colours? What's wrong with white or the naked plasterboard? They would still partition the house into multiple rooms I suppose, no?

eddddy

jack000 wrote: »

I was told the problem is in fact caused by whatever is underneath the flooring, but if that's the case, why didn't the people who installed it call me to make me aware of the issue? I would surely have arranged for it to be sorted.

The floor will have been level when the house was built. The sloping floor will be because part of the building has 'settled' or because the joists have warped.

If it's an old house, the settlement may have happened a long time ago, so it would be nothing to worry about.

Do you own the house, and did you get a survey when you bought it? The survey should have highlighted the sloping floors, and suggested causes, and whether you should be concerned about it.