Older houses that have over time settle into various problems. You can use regular shimstock that you can get at anyplace that sells wood.

One house I had to put six floor jacks in the basement to hold up the floor, because I wanted to take the 6" drop out of the middle. 1/2" a day untillI was a little over a 1/2 inch to tall. Under that room I used three engineered joists, bolted every 6" in a v pattern. I dropped the jacks and the she was.
alevel floor. I used to buy, fix, sell old houses. None of them that I ever went in had more than 1 or 2 walls that were square.

I usually tell people that its the character of the house and should be enjoyed that way. To some extent, I like that.

I have the maturity of an 8 year old girl.

I had that same problem when I was 8, also.

Quote from: @ivan on November 21, 2011, 02:20:50 PM
I had that same problem when I was 8, also.

Yea but I have aspergers.

me too. (really)

Our house suffers from wonkiness due to the proximity of a bomb in WWII.

Quote from: xXRebeccaXx on November 21, 2011, 02:23:23 PM
Yea but I have aspergers.

I'll get the congratulations cake out then.


Odd fact about me: I am the only person on the entire internet with no diagnoses, pills or general intrusion, all my silliness is natural joi de vivre and all my seriousness natural meditation, and I sleep very well at night also.

I'm going to have my therapist visit with you soon......

Quote from: Rebis on November 19, 2011, 11:35:34 AM
I can touch the floor with my palms and I'm not in great shape. We should all get together and walk down a street that way.

I'm picturing it and it's hilarious.  Lots of...targets.

I like our quirky, wonky old house.  It's on the kind of street where every house is totally different, and all but one is over fifty.  (And that one was built in the 80s and is twice the house the rest of them are, so it sticks out like a sore thumb and just makes the rest of the street that much more charming.)

Plus whatever skeevy things go on in the surrounding neighborhood always avoid our street like vampires staying away from a church.

Hehe, it feels weird to read 50 years as old. I think I've only ever lived in one house younger than 50. In a chopped up Georgian place now.

You Europeans, where you have history and stuff.

I hate wearing skivvies cos I get claustrophobic trying to take them off....well last time I wore one I did. I can't sleep in after 7...can go for naps anytime of the day after ten, but if I go to bed in the afternoon for a snooze, and wake up after 6ish, I can't get to sleep til about 2.30am.

I purchase my tatts tickets  from the same on place  Tuesday and have had til now a 1 in 3 chance of winning my money back.If I purchase any other time I win nothing.The first ticket I purchased I won enough money to purchase a tatts ticket for the next two years and not win and still be in front.That was three months ago.

Kristyn

I only have one blood relative that's taller than me, and he got it from the other side of the family. And I'm only 5'10". Everyone in my family is middling to short. I don't know where my height comes from.

Quote from: Julian on November 29, 2011, 04:05:54 PM
I only have one blood relative that's taller than me, and he got it from the other side of the family. And I'm only 5'10". Everyone in my family is middling to short. I don't know where my height comes from.

That's odd, I'm the only blonde/red-ed for at least 4 generations in my family.

Quote from: Pica Pica on November 29, 2011, 04:12:57 PM
That's odd, I'm the only blonde/red-ed for at least 4 generations in my family.

My height might come from my great (great-great?) grandmother, but I don't know if she was quite as tall as me. Ironically, she's also my namesake.

Since i have no plumbing in my house i have to haul my water to wash my dishes but thats not why i lick my plate when i am done eating 

I'd like to kiss a guy...but I've not come across the right one...only here. And i think he's miles away....literally 

Quote from: Kristyn74 on December 01, 2011, 06:25:25 AM
I'd like to kiss a guy...but I've not come across the right one...only here. And i think he's miles away....literally 

Miles shouldn't be a problem it's 100,000 odd miles that is problematic  if transport time is less then an hour then you are closer then I am to most of my friends

I live in the county some nutjob wants to make our 51st state. Apparently the rest of Illinois can't handle us.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/illinois-republican-wants-chicago-area-51st-state-160924927.html

Illinois would be pretty sparse without Chicago...

I never dated until I was 31, and she lived 11 hours away by car until she moved in with me. But we've been happily married for 7 years, so things worked out.