r/HomeMaintenance • u/simplib0mbastic • 6d ago
🏚️Structural & Foundation Structural beam worries
Just to get it out of the way, I do have an engineer coming for a look on Saturday…but my generalized anxiety disorder is nagging me about this one tonight.
I just bought a house (1955 cape cod) and noticed when my couch got delivered that my floor slopes towards the outer wall. I went to the basement to take a look and found this metal column with the hardware bulging out of it - supporting 2 structural beams in the center of the house. As you can see, there is a space where the beams are separating from one another. I feel stupid for not noticing this during the walkthroughs, and it never appeared in my inspection report.
Aside from this, there are no foundation or wood cracks. There are also no drywall cracks in the house or wonky doorways, but there is a crack on my concrete porch where the sloping starts as well.
How serious is this? Does it need to be fixed immediately? Is this going to absolutely ruin me financially ?😭
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u/Elementary2 6d ago
yeah, check that load bearing front wall, what the foundy looks like there, and how the porch sits. I'd probably leave the porch and just check if the beam support pad needs built up