that I am guessing is indicating an area where your front porch concrete slab has settled down along the building foundation suggests to me that the whole masonry porch is settling - that could explain the post separation at the top of the post as well as the settlement along the house ...
2. Storms Whether it is a hurricane or a normal rainstorm, these storms come with a lot of water that’s likely to damage the foundation of your home. When there is a lot of water around the foundation of your home, it will make it expand. The expansion will in turn push up against...
Question: should we seal floor cracks exposed when we pulled up basement carpeting? Our house had a radon problemWe have had our home mitigated for radon. The latest reading is 2.9. Therefore, we feel we are controlling the radon successfully. We are in the process of removing carpet from ...
Plaster cracks indicate new house is settlingPeter Hotton, Globe Staff
I live in durham NC, and the base soil is clay. The exterior of the house has also shown signs of cracking, however I did have a structural guy (only one though) took a look under the house and said that there had been some settling in the past, but that it had been re-supported...