2nd floor wood cracking

davidmcn · 11 January 2020 at 11:25PM

Rocksolid wrote: »

Well, also the ground floor was not that stable to be honest, but I'm not afraid to fall down from the ground floor

Do you really think people in the UK keep on falling through floors? Is this something you've witnessed, or heard any natives discussing?

LadyDee · 11 January 2020 at 11:27PM

Some of our homes are centuries old, and gosh they have wooden floors which have withstood generations of feet tramping over them. Wood is flexible, it's meant to be flexible, it's natural. If you find an odd floorboard that creaks, try inserting cork strips between the boards, this will enable them to flex without creaking.

If you want solid floors buy a modern flat or house with concrete floors.

Rocksolid · 11 January 2020 at 11:39PM

davidmcn wrote: »

Do you really think people in the UK keep on falling through floors? Is this something you've witnessed, or heard any natives discussing?

No, never, but I can't trust the quality of something like this... This was 240k 2 bedrooms... Should I spend 240k for such quality? Otherwise the rest was great, also wide garden and garage (maybe some improvement here was needed, like security)

Otherwise I found a 250k 2 bedroom coach house, brand new, but I don't like someone parking under my house, the only pro is that it's new and is detached.
Also here quite confident that those wood bars will move a lot very soon.

benbay001 · 11 January 2020 at 11:54PM

I pity the estate agents who have wasted their time on you.
You will never buy. I just know it.
As for concrete vs wooden floors... Concrete is brittle. Once it goes, it really does go. If a wooden floor had somehow rotted, you would get plenty of warning before it collapsed.

LadyDee · 12 January 2020 at 2:01AM

Rocksolid wrote: »

No, never, but I can't trust the quality of something like this... This was 240k 2 bedrooms... Should I spend 240k for such quality? Otherwise the rest was great, also wide garden and garage (maybe some improvement here was needed, like security)

Otherwise I found a 250k 2 bedroom coach house, brand new, but I don't like someone parking under my house, the only pro is that it's new and is detached.
Also here quite confident that those wood bars will move a lot very soon.

Oh good grief! I'm beginning to think this is a complete wind-up.