Jon mackay
05-17-2010, 06:12 AM
I'm not sure what to recommend here. This house is 1960's construction.
There has been an addition of a rear 2 story porch with a stone floor at the 2nd floor. The patio that it is resting on has a very large settlement crack and the structure framing is improper for the load.
Now at the main house, there are corner cracks at both rear foundation areas and on horizontal crack at the left side. I was thinking that this could all be a result of this porch not having proper footers and has pulled down the rear portion of the house. Very unusual cracks at the rear shingles too see thread http://www.inspectionnews.net/home_inspection/roofing-system-home-inspection-commercial-inspection/19836-cracked-shingles.html
I was going to call for a concrete foundation specialist to check out the foundation and also to have a contractor support install more adequate support at the porch but I was looking to get some additional opinions.
There has been an addition of a rear 2 story porch with a stone floor at the 2nd floor. The patio that it is resting on has a very large settlement crack and the structure framing is improper for the load.
Now at the main house, there are corner cracks at both rear foundation areas and on horizontal crack at the left side. I was thinking that this could all be a result of this porch not having proper footers and has pulled down the rear portion of the house. Very unusual cracks at the rear shingles too see thread http://www.inspectionnews.net/home_inspection/roofing-system-home-inspection-commercial-inspection/19836-cracked-shingles.html
I was going to call for a concrete foundation specialist to check out the foundation and also to have a contractor support install more adequate support at the porch but I was looking to get some additional opinions.