Problem connection between airport bases

Hello everyone
I would like to ask a question if someone could give me a solution if it exists
I own four bases airport installed in a three-story house in this way:
Airport Extreme configured as "creates wireless network" on the third floor
Airport Express (Express1) configured as "access to the wireless network" always on the third floor
Airport Express (Express2) configured as "extend wireless network" on the second floor
Airport Express (Express3) configured as "extend wireless network" on the first floor.
All airport bases are updated to firmware 7.6.4
Occasionally the network configuration changes, and when it's like in "Fig 1", the wireless network signal on the first floor is very weak, and when the configuration is as in "Fig 2" signal on the first floor is at maximum capacity and will takes for all the floor.
I already tried to change the radio channel, to enter ip fixed on airport express but without resolving anything.
Do you have ideas about?

It's OK if Express 3 gets a signal from Express 2, as long as it gets a significantly stronger signal from the AirPort Extreme than it does from Express 2.
Yes, I over exaggerated the situation..
My problem is in the middle of a repair where I have an old TC connected by wireless in extend mode to my main TC in the next room is the rest of the network on extend then goes haywire.. so I have seen the effect.. and it seems difficult to stop it although you did find an improvement in selecting a particular unit to extend..
I need to get over my laziness btw and run ethernet to the places that have so far missed out.. there is only one area.. but it means going right around via the ceiling or right through bottom and up double storey outside wall.. I had the whole house wired 10base2 from 1994 and it worked great.. so easy to simply put another outlet into the single run of coax.. and it seemed super fast back then.. Move on 20 years.. and doing it all again in Cat6 doesn't thrill so much. It is also against certain rules in Australia.. shhh . You cannot do your own data cabling.. !! Such is the state we live in.. !! Of course all my data cabling was installed before the law changed.. You can tell because I wrote the date on it .. 2006 just yesterday. This is called sarcasm btw.. !! Cat cable has a date on it.. and I keep a roll from 1993 for the job.. yuk yuk yuk.

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