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Thanks all for your replies, I can't get multiquoting to work but will try to answer everyone. I believe that the brick wall and the 3 foot wide patio retains the drops to the garden. I lifted up some of the patio slabs and there is just mud underneith, I would need to dig down to see if there is anything more substantial. I have bought a better spirit level (length 1.8m) and lifted up all the carpets downstairs to retake mutliple measurements per room and averaged. In a straight line from the front door the layout is Porch->hallway -> dining room -> extension Measurements are 22mm -> 29mm -> 41mm -> 23mm (wall only). Unfortunately there is no point measuring floors in either extension as both concrete slabs have dropped. Upstairs is pretty much the same as downstairs. The upper hallway which spans from the front of the house to the back except the extension has a drop of 39mm over the spirit level. I do not have much confidence in the wall measurments due to so many low/high spots, but I measured around 24-29mm over the spirit level. I am going to speak to a local SE tomorrow and ask my surveyor why this was missed. The survey was a level 2 RICS survey. Like Torre, I do not believe this has happened recently, but the slant makes things difficult. The fitted wardobres etc look terrible because they have had to correct for the slope, kitchen, showers, doorframes, etc look very wonky against the ceiling/cornices, we need to level our desks, stop our chairs from rolling when sat in, all doors swing open/close and so on. I have always taken a level house for granted, but not anymore 😆

Thanks all for your replies. The house is built around late 70's with the extensions done in the early 80's. The slope is on both floors and the bottom floor is concrete. The walls are not level in the axis of the slope, but are level perpendicular to the slope. It is like somebody picked the house up, rotated it a couple of degrees and then placed it back down again! There are cracks around some of the windows and a couple of the doors. Albeit the PVC ones only, the woodens ones seem to have no cracks. I can't see any cracks elsewhere bar the cracks through the blockwork in the attached garage but no cracks on the external bricks. I have attached a rough layout of the land, I suspect the cause of the slope is the garden being 2foot lower and the extension at the back. It would be nice if the slope could be corrected but I guess there is no reasonable solution to this and I just have to accept it?

Bought my first house a week ago and we noticed about two days in that the whole house is on a slant. Once we pulled back the carpet and underlay we could then feel the incline when walking from the back of the house to the front. How I missed this I have no idea, how the surveyor didn't seem to notice is even worse. Luckily, it does not appear to be new (at least 20 years old) as things like doors, mouldings/kickboards around the old fitted kitchen/wardrobes, etc have all been cut to the angle of the house's slope. Over a 1m level the drop is approximately 20-25mm. I haven't found any cracks in the brickwork except for a few in the side extension in the blockwork. I have no idea if this has been caused by the extensions done in the 80's, drainage issues or something else. I am good at DIY, but experience with structural issues is new. I am assuming my only option to investigate this is to pay for a structural engineer's report? Any idea what a reasonable cost for this would be? Prices I have seen online seem to vary between 300 and 5000!