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Foundation Cracked at Corners Tony Sivori 01-17-2007
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Posted by Tony Sivori on January 17, 2007, 11:57 am


I'm looking for a house, and a few that I have looked at have cracks in
the corner of the concrete foundation. I've only seen it on houses that
have a basement.

Here's some links to photos of two of the houses:

worst one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49868737@N00/360644983/

same crack, different angle:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49868737@N00/360644974/in/photostream/

two smaller ones:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49868737@N00/360644990/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49868737@N00/360644994/


How bad is this? Can it be safely ignored? Is it worse if more than one
corner is cracked?

Or does it need repair? If so, what is involved? Just some drilling,
insert some rebar, and some concrete?

--
Tony Sivori


Posted by Eric in North TX on January 17, 2007, 12:07 pm



Looks like shoddy construction to me, if there was any wire or rebar in
that it might have cracked, but it would still have held together.


Posted by EXT on January 17, 2007, 3:06 pm


I see that some of the bricks are chipped on the corner. It looks to me like
the corner has been hit by something that damaged both the concrete and the
bricks. I can think of nothing in normal day to day life nor settling of the
foundation that would cause both to be damaged the same way. Probably some
construction or heavy duty landscaping equipment bumped or scraped the
corner when it was working in the area.


> I'm looking for a house, and a few that I have looked at have cracks in
> the corner of the concrete foundation. I've only seen it on houses that
> have a basement.
>
> Here's some links to photos of two of the houses:
>
> worst one:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/49868737@N00/360644983/
>
> same crack, different angle:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/49868737@N00/360644974/in/photostream/
>
> two smaller ones:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/49868737@N00/360644990/
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/49868737@N00/360644994/
>
>
> How bad is this? Can it be safely ignored? Is it worse if more than one
> corner is cracked?
>
> Or does it need repair? If so, what is involved? Just some drilling,
> insert some rebar, and some concrete?
>
> --
> Tony Sivori
>



Posted by RRW on January 17, 2007, 4:04 pm


How about chips in the brick from when someone tried to break the
cement back for patching purposes? I don't like the looks of it. It
looks to me like it has been patched at least twice previously. Good
Luck, RW

EXT wrote:
> I see that some of the bricks are chipped on the corner. It looks to me like
> the corner has been hit by something that damaged both the concrete and the
> bricks. I can think of nothing in normal day to day life nor settling of the
> foundation that would cause both to be damaged the same way. Probably some
> construction or heavy duty landscaping equipment bumped or scraped the
> corner when it was working in the area.
>
>
> > I'm looking for a house, and a few that I have looked at have cracks in
> > the corner of the concrete foundation. I've only seen it on houses that
> > have a basement.
> >
> > Here's some links to photos of two of the houses:
> >
> > worst one:
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/49868737@N00/360644983/
> >
> > same crack, different angle:
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/49868737@N00/360644974/in/photostream/
> >
> > two smaller ones:
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/49868737@N00/360644990/
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/49868737@N00/360644994/
> >
> >
> > How bad is this? Can it be safely ignored? Is it worse if more than one
> > corner is cracked?
> >
> > Or does it need repair? If so, what is involved? Just some drilling,
> > insert some rebar, and some concrete?
> >
> > --
> > Tony Sivori
> >


Posted by on January 17, 2007, 4:06 pm


As a foundation contractor I would agree. The patch job appears to be
very bad. It looks like they just used bagged cement. The correct fix
may have to come from an engineer depending on how much of the
foundation was damaged. We fix items like this all the time. It would
involve chipping away until you get to the original concrete, doweling
into and epoxying in rebar, then repouring the corner with high
strength concrete. This would not take two people more than one day to
fix from what I can see.


EXT wrote:
> I see that some of the bricks are chipped on the corner. It looks to me like
> the corner has been hit by something that damaged both the concrete and the
> bricks. I can think of nothing in normal day to day life nor settling of the
> foundation that would cause both to be damaged the same way. Probably some
> construction or heavy duty landscaping equipment bumped or scraped the
> corner when it was working in the area.
>
>
> > I'm looking for a house, and a few that I have looked at have cracks in
> > the corner of the concrete foundation. I've only seen it on houses that
> > have a basement.
> >
> > Here's some links to photos of two of the houses:
> >
> > worst one:
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/49868737@N00/360644983/
> >
> > same crack, different angle:
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/49868737@N00/360644974/in/photostream/
> >
> > two smaller ones:
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/49868737@N00/360644990/
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/49868737@N00/360644994/
> >
> >
> > How bad is this? Can it be safely ignored? Is it worse if more than one
> > corner is cracked?
> >
> > Or does it need repair? If so, what is involved? Just some drilling,
> > insert some rebar, and some concrete?
> >
> > --
> > Tony Sivori
> >


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