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We live in a 110 year old house and there are a lot of issues but we love her. Last year we remodeled our downstairs bathroom. This bathroom is almost right across the hall from our bedroom. The contractor leveled our bathroom, which made a slope of our hardwood from the beginning of the bathroom door to the end of the hall (maybe 2 feet) slope about 2 inches. Our bedroom door is to the right of the bathroom door, so they are not at a point where they are directly across from each other, only in the same hallway. We have hardwood floors throughout our house. We removed the hardwood starting from the end of our bedroom door to the end of the hallway. The floors are about 5 years old, so we don't want to remove all the hardwood, just work on this area. How can we level it so we can put down the rest of the hardwood floors? We were told not to use leveling cement becuase you can't nail on cement and it will crumble. Because the slope starts so gradual, we can't put plywood or backerboard that close to wear the hardwood ends or there will be a quarter inch bump. If we use shims, that won't work either because we need a solid surface to lay the floor on. Wish I could draw you a picture here but I hope I've explained myself. Any help would be appreciated!
Sounds like you need to go down one floor and see what kind of floor joists you have under the floor and if they are butt jointed to a main cross beam. When the contractor leveled one side he may not have taken into consideration the movement may pulled the other side joist away from the beam. and if its on the second floor, this load barring wall would have followed all the way to the basement as many of them did in those days.
From a very high level, what you need to do is re-establish a level subfloor. That generally means ripping out the existing finish flooring and subfloor and then shimming out the JOISTS before re-skinning them with new subflooring (I strongly recommend using the tongue&groove plywood designed specifically subflooring, along with screws for this...). This is not something that an inexperienced DIY will be able to do in a timely manner and probably should be hired out if you need to use the home while the subfloors are ripped out ... How to Lay Subfloor on an Uneven Floor | Home Guides | SF Gate
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