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We offered for one of the home that we liked and we are in Escrow. During the house inspection, it was found that there was a crack on the Garage wall. Please find the picture attached.
Can anyone tell me if this is a serious crack or is it okay to buy the house with this? The seller is not willing to do the inseption on this since it was there even when he bought the house 4 years ago.
If structural inspection is necessary can you please tell me if you any good inspectors who do this.
I'm a little confused about your situation--you say you had a home inspection already, so what did your home inspector say about the crack? If this was something that required a structural inspection, your home inspector should have told you that, and if he saw it and didn't think it was necessary to get a structural inspection then you shouldn't need to. If he told you to get a structural inspection, then it's your choice not the seller's whether you do that or not since you'll be paying for the inspection. Only way the sellers have any say in whether you get the additional inspection is if you already removed you inspection contingency, or if you're at the date you have to remove your inspection contingency by and they don't want to give you more time. Otherwise, assuming your inspection contingency is still in force, you can get any inspections you want. If you do need the additional inspection, your realtor should help you find someone.
Pretty hard to keep cracks out of concrete. It shrinks as it dries, therefore it needs to crack somewhere. Most well built construction has built in expansion joints. Good example is a sidewalk. The lines going across the sidewalk, look very close in the bottom of the line, it will be cracked. On long cement block walls look for a place where all the blocks end in a straight line up & down instead of overlap like the rest of the wall.
Up here we get road blows in the hot part of summer. The slabs of concrete expand without enough place to go so this just pop up! Only fix is to tear it out & replace it with new. They were poured originally with not enough expansion room. On a highway it is usually a kind of felt pad between the slabs, then sealed along the top with hot tar to keep water out. If water gets in, it will freeze in the winter & break parts of the concrete.
Back to a house, the concrete floors have man made expansion cracks also. Many times they are placed under any walls that are in the basement. Remember any concrete with the nice straight marks across it are not there for looks, but are very functional as a expansion place.
Are you totally confused ?
Bernie
