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True that. I'm sure it's not necessarily a simple task to nail down the cause of water seepage, I guess what I'm getting at is once that is resolved, in your experience does a wall that looks like this require further repair, or will it be fine to leave it as it is once the water issue is...

Thanks, guys. If this is indeed water damage, would it be a situation where I would just need to determine a source of a leak and resolve it, or would there need to be repairs made to the brick? Cosmetically I'm find with it, it's an unfinished basement and I'm pretty much never down there, I...

Hi Neal- Only the portion surrounding that one window are above ground, the rest is below ground. The bottom of the window sits at street level. The exterior of the house is some form of painted stone as shown here. I don't see anything outside that necessarily resembles a weep hole.

Hi guys! Thought I'd just give an update on this. I ended up getting a contractor to come look at the issue, he cut away the rotted wood, took down the closet that sat below these joists that I wasn't using to begin with, and sistered the joists that were damaged. So far, so good. In terms of...

Also, my apologies for the upside down pictures. I just can't seem to get that right on this website!

Hi! I'm really hoping the answer is that this is just cosmetic or a simple fix, but I want to be sure before it develops into something larger. I noticed that some of the bricks in my 100+ year old Baltimore City rowhome basement are crumbling with small piles of brick dust on the floor in...

Sorry, misunderstood what you were looking for. Here it is. The twisted joist is in the center of the photo, the one running along the edge of the photo is the joist that runs along the stairwell.

It is, the crack should be directly above the area of this joist, running off to the left from there. Attached are shots of the next two joists over, which would sit near the crack in the wall. This is also right under where water used to pool in the alleyway until we redirected the gutters to...

Hi all- Lively discussion since last I visited! I was able to look a little closer based on your responses, it appears that the joists are supposed to be sitting in joist pockets in the brick, and every joist in the house is properly seated in a joist pocket except the one in question. Does that...

Okay, thanks! And as it appears, does this seem like a major safety issue/something that is apt to get worse over time, or is it something that can wait for a little bit?

Thanks guys, for all your responses! I'm most definitely a novice and I don't know if I trust myself to make these repairs properly. Is not addressing this a safety issue, or is it simply cosmetic? If I were to pay someone to help with this, would a general contractor do or would I need to go to...

Ohhh, okay, gotcha. The joist to the right is alongside the stairwell, not the wall in the image. The wall in the image is above the joist to the left and the one to the left of that in the image you had in your post.

I can try to get more shots once I'm home. The house may actually be older, records were lost after the Great Baltimore Fire, so everything built 1900 and earlier is just listed as "1900." It's an old brick rowhome, the exterior is brick with stucco on top. The joist to the right is the joist...

Hi! I'm trying to determine if an issue I'm having is something that is a safety issue that requires immediate repair, or simply just cosmetic. I noticed that in the back portion of my dining room the floors were beginning to sag and the wall alongside had a crack (though it's a 116 year old...