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Lake cabin with cracked foundation
I am looking at purchasing a repo lake cabin. It's a fixer upper and
will need work. What concerns me is the cracked foundation on one corner (out of the walkout basement)where a section concrete block has come out about 4 inches. It looks like it's been this way for awhile and it was patched with mortar. It's hard to say how big the original crack was. I'm having a home inspection done but no foundation repair companies will come out and give me an estimate because I'm not the homebuyer. It doesn't look like it would fall over or is unsafe but I have no experience in foundation repairs and I'd like an expert opinion from someone who does that work. We intend to use it as a summer cabin for weekends and vacations. It's over 1200 square feet inside, the lake is beautiful, and the cabin is going for under $20,000. I'm looking for others experience and thoughts or someone that had to repair a cracked basement. It seems it would be better to eat the home inspection cost and back out than buy something that will need $$$$ of dollars to repair. Any advice? Thank you. Dan. |
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Lake cabin with cracked foundation
how expensive to break out the mortar to inspect whether reinforcing exists,
then replace mortar? "Dr. Reuse" wrote in message om... I am looking at purchasing a repo lake cabin. It's a fixer upper and will need work. What concerns me is the cracked foundation on one corner (out of the walkout basement)where a section concrete block has come out about 4 inches. It looks like it's been this way for awhile and it was patched with mortar. It's hard to say how big the original crack was. I'm having a home inspection done but no foundation repair companies will come out and give me an estimate because I'm not the homebuyer. It doesn't look like it would fall over or is unsafe but I have no experience in foundation repairs and I'd like an expert opinion from someone who does that work. We intend to use it as a summer cabin for weekends and vacations. It's over 1200 square feet inside, the lake is beautiful, and the cabin is going for under $20,000. I'm looking for others experience and thoughts or someone that had to repair a cracked basement. It seems it would be better to eat the home inspection cost and back out than buy something that will need $$$$ of dollars to repair. Any advice? Thank you. Dan. |
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