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New Residential Foundation Heaving in Houston, TXFrom: gjpull@yahoo.com
Category: Foundations and Basements
Remote Name: 207.218.91.130
Date: 27 Jun 2006
Time: 05:21 PM
CommentsOur house is almost 2 years old now. At about 6 months, we began noticing cracks in the sheetrock, seperation of walls at corners, doors sticking, distortion in walls, pretty much all over the house. In additon, seperation in exterior brick/mortoar. The builder has had an engineer take elevation measurments twice, 6 month apart. Plus, we had our own engineer do the same. All 3 reports state that there is a maximum differential elevation of the slab of about 2.8 inches. It was 2.65 inches on the first report.
The builders engineer states that the slab is performing properly and, of course, our says it isn't and should be repaired.
From our engineer, "The front entry's foyer negative slope from the front of the house to the center of the house is less than twenty feet in length and has a drop in elevation of one and three eights of an inch. This slope in the foyer is severe enough to be noticeable when simply walked upon from front to back."
My question is: is there an industry standard on the maximum a foundation is allowed to heave? If so, what is it?
We're trying to decide whether or not to pursue any legal action.
The builders current remedy is to wait another 6 months and re-measure.
Thank you
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