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| Take Pictures of Your Growing Foundation Damage or Cracks |
| By Greg Vanden Berge |
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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. |
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| 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.
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