Shoot. I made a typo. Second inspector did NOT look at the outside. He was pretty confident without looking, so missed a chance to see the deck was wrong and the corner foundation under ground.
Thank you both.
I remain most concerned now about
(1)how to find someone willing to work on this, and
(2) diagnostically, whether I really need to take boards off the deck and saw the concrete pad under the deck back in order to get a look at the outside of the box joist. The inside of the...
I have a house built in around 1970 with a rotted mudsill for about 8 feet in a crawl space under a one story family room, which will need about 3/4 inc jacking to replace. SOme floor joist ends are a little soft at the bottom too(shallow problem). I was told this was my only problem at...