Everything is tilted left

[Rich Ullsmith]

I got a lot of stuff hanging in the house. Lot of it for more than ten years. But no matter what, I will be walking around and one piece will be leaning left. So I straighten it out. Then I look around. Everything in every room is either square or leaning left. Remodel, repaint, rehang. Laser level. Hangers in studs. Six months later. Everything tilting left. No matter which wall. Is this a normal occurrence?

 

[Don_ih]

Maybe it happens due to vibrations from nearby traffic?

Or tremors in the force?

 

[Taylor Nankervis]

Try a blob of bostik blue-tac each bottom corner.

Else...
...your house foundations are slowly sinking...

 

[Sirius Glass]

Earthquakes will do that even small ones. Normal building settling into the ground will do that. Since everything is leaning to port, you should regularly drink some port every evening.

 

[Kino]

Try a plum line on the wall. Your floor may be level to your pictures, but the entire house may be slightly tilted.

 

[runswithsizzers]

Coriolis force? Are you in the northern hemisphere, or southern? ;-)

 

[MattKing]

Perhaps you need to seek government assistance:

 

[fiddle]

Is your left leg slightly shorter than your right?

 

[Patrick Robert James]

Switch to hangers that are bars. Can't remember offhand what they are called but since you screw the one side in level, the frame will always hang level unless your house tilts...

Looked them up. French cleats.

 

[Pieter12]

Use two hangers per frame, spaced 6" apart. Also, use plastic-coated picture wire.

 

[pentaxuser]

I got a lot of stuff hanging in the house. Lot of it for more than ten years. But no matter what, I will be walking around and one piece will be leaning left. So I straighten it out. Then I look around. Everything in every room is either square or leaning left. Remodel, repaint, rehang. Laser level. Hangers in studs. Six months later. Everything tilting left. No matter which wall. Is this a normal occurrence?

This will have to sound as if I am insulting your intelligence and/or your state of mind but if all objects take 6 months to all hang to the left can anyone else in the house see this and do they also comment on it?

I have a 12 inch wall clock on my study wall where the desktop computer is so it is in my peripheral vision most of the time and each time I stand up to pass this clock I am always tempted to slightly alter it to get the figures 6 and 12 exactly in line with the top and bottom of the wall

There is no movement in the house but I fear all the movement is ín my mind which changes daily about whether the clock is exactly level

If of course the movement is really noticeable then it's back to the question of why no-one else sees it or do they?


pentaxuser

 

[Vaughn]

After a nice quake I can tell from which direction the force from the earthquake came from by which walls have photos askew. Quakes from the south move photos on north-south running walls, for example.

The walls, the paneling, and the windows are not 'level' in my house, so it is a matter of how things look... not if they are level.

But then again, it just might be you.

 

[MurrayMinchin]

To borrow from an old saying; just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't messing with you. Sounds like something I might do, except it would bother me too much to see them askew!

After hearing a couple friends have a debate about screw slots in electric light switch cover plates being aligned vertically or horizontally, I made sure to have ours with the top screw aligned vertically and the bottom one horizontally. Call it a guilty pleasure knowing it would bug both 'one way or the other' factions

 

[Pieter12]

A handy OCD pocket level.

 

[jeffreyg]

Bumpons on the bottom corners might help

 

[Sirius Glass]

When a wall hanging tilts to the left aka port, do lights flash and spell out "TILT"?

 

[FotoD]

How fascinating, I hope you get to the bottom of this. Did you have the same problem before remodeling?

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

I got a lot of stuff hanging in the house. Lot of it for more than ten years. But no matter what, I will be walking around and one piece will be leaning left. So I straighten it out. Then I look around. Everything in every room is either square or leaning left. Remodel, repaint, rehang. Laser level. Hangers in studs. Six months later. Everything tilting left. No matter which wall. Is this a normal occurrence?

If it's every wall it can't be the house settling.

 

[Sirius Glass]

If it's every wall it can't be the house settling.

There is no way that every wall can tilt to the left. Think about a square or rectangular room in your mind work on a way to tilt all the walls the the left. You cannot, it is physically impossible.

 

[loccdor]

Brownie (folklore) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[snusmumriken]

Tati

 

[Don_ih]

There is no way that every wall can tilt to the left. Think about a square or rectangular room in your mind work on a way to tilt all the walls the the left. You cannot, it is physically impossible.

Perhaps it's an Escher house.

 

[mshchem]

Everything is tilting to the LEFT? REALLY?? Boy I must be living on a different planet

 

[Romanko]

Everything in every room is either square or leaning left.

In my house lovingly built by highly-skilled Australian tradesmen I have to decide whether I want to hang the mirror parallel to the ceiling, the floor, the top of the buffet underneath it or level. At least you don't have that much choice. For larger pieces (like my mirror) a French cleat could solve your problem.

 

[Hassasin]

Not everything should be level to look level. Brain connects all surrounding pieces together into one image and interprets some aspects based on what others are showing. If a frame hangs on a wall that has vertical elements, which may NOT be actually level, even though they should be, a small misalignment makes one piece (i.e. a frame) look wrong instead of the rest, whichever part overwhelms the rest.

It's a bitch to go all square, and look square, where some permanent features of a space are not, and can no longer be realigned.