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| | | Re: Unstable Floors < Reply # 9 on 5/23/2014 8:37 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Try and locate where the beams are and walk on those if at all possible. It’s usually possible to tell where they are from where the boards are nailed. Which doesn’t actually answer the OP’s question, I admit, so I’ll try and do that too. The answer is; it’s damnedably hard to tell sometimes. Holes in the floors aren’t necessarily the best indicators, as they can be caused by something else and not weaken the structural integrity of the surface. Moss or plants growing in or out of wooden boards is generally a bad thing (although that being said, I’ve crossed a floor that was made up entirely of grass growing on the top floor of a mansion house with no problems). Wet patches/drips from above are also good signs. Likewise if it’s bowing in the middle. Generally if it’s wooden floors look for signs of decay or rot, on concrete floors look for worrying cracks (again though, you could be fine if it’s reinforced concrete, as even if it’s cracked all the way through. The steel rebar should hold a lot of weight) and on metal floors, look for large patches of rust. Any holes in metal floors are a lot more worrying than in wooden floors as, unless it’s individual sheets of metal, holes can weaken the entire structural integrity of the surface. Tl;dr: use common sense, avoid holes and bowing boards, test your weight before committing yourself and if you don’t trust the surface, don’t walk on it. Simples. (Edited for paragraph clarity/ease of reading)
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