Originally Posted by
Alton Darty
Right now I have a client who is unhappy with me for the recommendation to have SE examine. I will do the same thing next time I run across this, because I still feel that there is a problem.
Alton,
Don't fret over it, they will come to love having that structural engineer's report if (when) something bad happens or when they sell (everyone sells sooner or later).
I've had a few clients upset about paying extra for a structural engineer to design appropriate repairs and then have them say that it is okay as it is - they picked the structural engineer, I didn't. But, when they went to sell and that same thing showed up on the in$pection report, they whipped out that engineers report and it become like gold to them - worth much more than they had paid for it a few years earlier.