Take Pictures Of Your Growing Foundation Damage
I champion people and try to get them to look at their
house, at least once a year. One of the easiest ways to inspect your
home is to use a home inspection checklist and if you really want a good
home inspection checklist, there's a good chance that you are going to
need to purchase one. You get what you pay for and don't ever forget
that.
Foundation repairs usually start with a small crack and that's no joke.
If you notice a crack, take a picture of it and save it somewhere. If
you think, that the crack is actually getting a little bigger or
starting to separate, you can simply take another picture and compare
the two photos.
I would like to give you an example of what I'm talking about. Sometimes
we look at something and we think that it's getting larger, but we don't
have anything to compare it to. As time goes on, we think that the crack
is still getting larger, but our mind is creating an optical illusion.
This happens to a lot of people.
If you had a picture, from a few years ago, you could refresh your
memory and this could be very helpful in reducing your anxiety or
jumping to conclusions about foundation damage. Trust me, sometimes, I'm
like a medical emergency crew, going to visit a homeowner to relieve
their foundations stress. People panic over foundation cracks and I'm
the doctor they call for any one of their home emergencies.
I would also advise you to take pictures of the rest of your home. How
hard would it be to take about 300 pictures of your home each year and
store them on your computer or on a disk, for easy access later? A
picture is worth a thousand words and don't ever forget that.