So I showed up to one of those inexpensive cabins near park City. You know - the 5 million dollar kind. Honestly I have no idea what it sold for. The parties were squabbling about the basement slab. It should have been 4 inches thick and was 2 in at least 1 area. Here's what I told them.

My client today wanted to open the space in his master suite and put a golf simulator in the basement. I told him go for it. Nice day for him!

How to sometimes save a house that's leaning? I discuss that in this episode

Sometimes you just need confirmation that you're not crazy when you're buying a house.

Gotta love 80s homes. This one is very dated but it still cost nearly 1 mill. Structural questions with the stairstep cracks and drainage issues. Then he told me he wanted to open up the space between the kitchen. Here we go

So I did an inspection on a 1958 mess of a home. Super dated, bad condition, but in a great location. This one was complicated, but if you want to make 7 figures on one project, it can't be easy, right?

Um, why is there a pod about attic ventilation? How does that apply to a podcast about structural things?

Well, it's because I was hired to come out and explain to a client why the crack in their ceiling was or was not a structural problem. Turns out it wasn't, and the crack was simply a ventilation problem. At least this time.

Even your best neighbor's cousin's uncle will tell you that horizontal cracks in the foundation are the bad ones. Everybody says it so it must be true, right?

Well, that depends on what the cause of the crack is. I run into that today. It didn't turn out too bad.

Sometimes the client is doing the uze. (How do you spell that anyway? You know, short for usually. Uzh? Uzzz? Youzh? I guess if you're not cool enough to know, you shouldn't uze it).

Anyway, this time the uze is that they're finishing the basement. Fill in this wall with framing, take out that framed structural wall and do a header. That's what we're doing this time. 16 foot span, and it supports a 20 foot long set of joists. Here's that compelling documentary

Today I got called back to a newer home that was screwed up by the contractor. The framers actually put the walls eight inches away from where they should have been. This means that the footing doesn't support the walls above it in areas. Big oops. Here's my assessment.