I have had property inspection done on a house, building material floor board, rasied foundation.
Comments on Foundation from the inspector,
"There appears to be signs of water intrusion in the underlying foor space. Damp Soil and efflorescence in the concrete stumps. Recommend identifying source of moisture."
Listed under minor defect.
Could you please comment from your experience on how serious is the damage.
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Floor Board House Foundation, Water Intrusion
Bimbilibilikili on 11/10/2023 - 18:03
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I don't think water was on.
Got the report, will talk to the inspector tomorrow.
Thanks.
There’s been water lying under the place - the lumpy looking soil is the show.
The floor boards and joists look OK. You would need to direct water away from there and make it travel around the building, or install stormwater pipe to direct it under the building and out the other side.
Probably quite doable, but you would need to look at the high side of the land to see what to do.As an aside, once you have the underside free of standing water, consider insulating the underside of the floorboards if you can get to them as part of making the place energy efficient and comfortable - particularly in winter.
Looks like quite a lot of water went through there. Did this area flood recently (within the last 12 months)?
Its in Melbourne north, I don't think it flooded in recent times. House is about 30 years old, at-least that much history I get in sales history.
No, this house is definitely more than 50 years old of sort. It has original wooden stumps and restumped with concrete right next to it.
Meh, you can see where the salts have leached out and precipitated into the porous foundation.
If the water leak is obvious it shouldn't be too hard to deal with - just a plumber and maybe a day or two of labour.
if it's serious and under the ground then you may be up for a bit for excavation and finding the source.
Thanks
Looks like it has been restumped as it has wood and concrete stumps.
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Was the water on when the photo was taken? Probably one of those pipes is spraying water around when pressurised. Should be easy for a plumber to fix any leak.
Impossible to tell what the damage is like though, that's kind of what the inspection is for.