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 ...

Q: I am a real estate agent involved in the sale of a two-story house that has sloping floors and ceilings on both the ground and upper levels. There's a full basement with low ceilings (less than 6 ...

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 ...