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Re: Foundation repair [Re: Backwards cowboy] #4079637
02/08/24 06:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Backwoods cowboy
Most of these foundation companies are crooks. You can find something wrong with every foundation in every building ever built. Plus the average home owner has no way of telling if it's bs or not.had a structural engineer design a house slab for me one time. We built it exactly to his specs. Home owner called an inspection company to do his inspection on house, he recommended calling his buddy to check foundation, just to be safe. Buddy came out and said foundation was settling but he could fix for 20k. Homowner called me and said if I didn't pay for he was going to sue. I told him fine, I would take care of it. I called the foundation guy and said please send me his report, because I was gonna pay for repairs and the sue the structural engineer. The engineer was his daddy. A week later he went to home owner and said he thought they made a mistake and needed to check again. After rechecked, told owner his tech was new and made a mistake, and nothing was wrong with his foundation!



What most of these companies do is use salespeople
. With no structural or construction training. They sale the highest price as their commissions increase

Re: Foundation repair [Re: Fattyfireplug] #4079645
02/08/24 06:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Fattyfireplug
Nowhere near enough information.
My company inspects between 850-1000 homes a year. Foundation issues of one sort or another are in nearly all of them. Varying degrees of severity.

What I can tell you with 100% certainty is this. If you call a foundation contractor, they will always have something to sell you. Always. Every time. Never fails. Needed or not.

I direct my clients to a qualified licensed and independent structural engineer for anything I consider important. The foundation contractors have their own structural engineers and they give "free" evaluations. They are being paid by the companies that employ them. They do not have your best interested in mind. They will always sell you something. That's how they get paid.

The independent structural engineer will charge you for their time. They will NOT be quoting you repairs. They will simply identify if a repair is needed and what that repair should consist of. Then you take that to a foundation contractor, 3 quotes preferably, and price the work exactly as the structural engineer states and not one thing more. Of course, all this depends on the type issue you're having.

Example. Last week we inspected a home for a lady. Buying it for her parents.
General contractor leaving as I arrive. Told her the issue wasn't a big deal.
She then tells me she got a quote from a local contractor (One I don't trust). They quoted $37,000 in repairs across the entire 60' front of the basement wall.
I went down and inspected it. Told her the general contractor had lost his mind, there was significant lateral movement on the interior wall. It needs repair. However, the significant movement was JUST on the middle 3rd. Really the middle 5th. The remainder of the cracking was just hairline cracks, no movement at all. She called the structural engineer I recommended. They charged her $500.00 and as I suspected, the one section of foundation needed repair to prevent further movement. The rest did not. New quote $13000. Less than half what the foundation company quoted. So she saved many thousands of dollars using an independent structural engineer and is moving forward on the home.

My cell is 205-706-4356. You're welcome to reach out. Send some photos and I'll happily review them. All brick cracking is not foundational. There are many aspects to a foundation issue and a roofer doesn't know jack about any of them.


Very well explained for the everyday homeowner. Lots of crooks in the residential construction/repair markets.

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