What Serious Foundation Issues Look Like - YouTube

Hey everybody Kyle Sasser here with Keller Williams st

Pete and I want to take a video today to show you an example of some foundation issues over here in Pinellas County

So as you can see behind us here. I've got some wetlands back there, and then we also have a

You know there's quite a bit of a slope back there

And there's no retaining wall on the back to hold all this land up here

Pinellas County

You know it's all Beach. Even the stuff. That's got grass on it

You know back in the tens of thousands of years ago. It was all beach

And you know beach sand likes to move around a little bit

unfortunately

You know that does lead to some settling typically you only see like little hairline cracks in the stucco

You know in the corners of houses not really a big deal not anything to be concerned about however

There are occasions where you do hit significant

foundation issues so

This is what?

significant foundation issues look like

So basically what we have here we have

This is one cinder block over here, and then this is another cinder block that starts here

And this is a gap between

the two

The rule of thumb, I like to use is if you can if you can fit a quarter in it

Edgewise you should probably have somebody look at it

and that is

Not edgewise and that is a you know full diameter quarter, so yeah, this is this is way past

time for somebody to look at it let alone

You know being able to store a Campbell Soup can or something like that in there?

So basically the cause of this is you know the house sits on a slab

There's no sinkhole here so far as anyone's aware. There's a pond back there

But I spoke with some of the neighbors here, and they said that there's no you know no sinkhole or anything like that

They've had structural engineers out and all that good stuff, so

Yes, this is caused by house sitting on concrete slab on sand and

Basically, you know just over this house was built in 1972 so over those you know 4550 years

With the water you know ground gets saturated with rain everything moves just a couple grains of sand and compounded over 40 years

you know basically the backside of the house has dropped a little bit and

Then that's levered the front which is broken this this front part

And I'm gonna take you inside and show you the damage on the inside as well

But yeah, but this is way past

It so someone needed to fix that the quote

From RAM Jack, which is a you know a contractor that deals with?

fixing foundation issues basically what they come out they come out and they set piers underneath the

Foundation's so that the house sits on those piers instead of the sand, that's all shifting around and everything

but the quote for this particular fix is

forty thousand dollars so it can be significant so

Let's go inside

Yeah, I'm just gonna turn us this way

I didn't feeling like tripping on myself, okay So here

This is the back side of the house

There you go, so you can see the wetlands out there, and then here we do have some cracking

And this is kind of the bank back bedroom

Probably there is also some there was probably some water penetration as well

So you don't actually see any evidence of water, however the missing

Rug is kind of a good indicator that there was probably some moisture in here at some point we also have

A crack from settling here in the ceiling

And then I I know you can't see it, but over here in the kitchen

There's there's a slate

Well, okay

so there's a slight curve that I can see and if you can see it when you feel that you feel like you're

Going down a rollercoaster when you walked that way so the house is the house is moving in about three different directions here

the worst though

Is here in this front bedroom

So we have a huge crack

Here, so this is where we were just looking out at outside, so that's over here this kind of Jags, jags of backway

So we have a huge crack laterally across the length of the floor and

Well so note, I know you all can't tell how big my finger is but

That is that is one finger joint wide so that is definitely significant and needs to be remediated

and then the other

The other telltale sign here if you look at that baseboard, over here it's okay

And then you hit that crack, and then there's a huge gab over there

between the baseboard and

the

You know between the slab and then over here

We also have more more cracking and damage up here

Yeah, so that is what significant foundation damage looks like

Your house if you have like just you know some little some little hairline cracks that you can't even get it

You know can't get a dime or a piece of paper into

that is very very very common here in Pinellas County of course if you have any concerns, please contact a

Structural engineer they'll be happy to take a look at that

Hope this was a little informative. Please don't let your house get to this point

even though it is significant with

you know the $40,000 for the foundation work here a

lot of times there is

you know if you can't do an insurance claim they will

You know set up

Financing and all that good stuff for you. I think they did

so well not sure to be honest anyway if you have any questions or comments leave it below and

Thanks for tuning in