Hello-<\/p>\n
We are planning to renovate the top (third) floor of our brownstone. We plan to rip out the walls (in bad shape) and some ceilings (except for the tin ones) and update the electrical. Unlike our lower floors, there is little detail to preserve. <\/p>\n
The floors are quite slanted having sunk down in the middle over the years. When we bought the house a couple of years ago, we replaced the main beam in the house and it should be solid now (it had been supported by tree trunks!). <\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello- We are planning to renovate the top (third) floor of our brownstone. We plan to rip out the walls (in bad shape) and some ceilings (except for the tin ones) and update the electrical. Unlike our lower floors, there is little detail to preserve. The floors are quite slanted having sunk down in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-5218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floors"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2006\/06\/leveling-a-floo\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Leveling a Floor?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2006\/06\/leveling-a-floo\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2006\/06\/leveling-a-floo\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Floors","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"anon"}],"creator":["anon"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2006-06-03T19:48:05Z","datePublished":"2006-06-03T19:48:05Z","dateModified":"2008-07-28T16:27:07Z"},"rendered":"