text:  probably real close to an inch and a half dip and why is it important to you that you try to take this dip out of the floor because generally when dips form over many many years everything gets kind of settled in that space and it's not always a good idea in fact it's rarely a good idea to try to pick it back up unless it's an active structural problem which I doubt this is we want to replace the steps going upstairs and we can't do that because the steps that are there right now are actually twisting