A dip in the hallway of a Macon home is almost always something under the floor giving way, and it keeps going.
A floor that dips, bounces, or slopes toward the middle of a room is reporting on the support beneath it. In Macon that support is usually a pier and beam system, and there are only a few things that go wrong with one: a joist has softened, a girder has sagged between piers, or a pier has settled into the ground.
The Fall Line explains which of those you get. On the Piedmont side the clay swells and shrinks with the season, and piers riding on it move up and down until they stop coming back. Toward the Ocmulgee the ground stays damp and the framing goes soft at the ends where it bears on the beam. Both end up as a floor you can feel with your feet.
We measure the whole floor with a level before proposing anything, because the shape of the dip tells us where it started. Then the fix matches the cause. Failed joists and girder sections get replaced, sound spans get sistered, and adjustable steel supports go in on proper footings to carry the load and bring the floor back up. Lifting is gradual so nothing upstairs cracks.
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