On a sadder note, I noticed yesterday that I have some subsidence occurring at the south door of the sunroom. I have been having some problems with the door and have had the Marvin people out twice before to adjust the door. Yesterday, I noticed there is one cracked floor tile and there is obvious settling right in front of the door. I called Mike S. (carpenter) today and he said he would come out later this week to have a look.
This is disconcerting. As you may recall, Mike had an engineering company come out on September 30, 2014 and test the soil before the footings were poured. After they took their samples, Mike had the footings poured on October 6, 2014. On October 18, 2014, Mike sent me the invoice from the engineering company along with their report. The report stated that "the existing fill soils observed are unsuitable for support of the proposed construction". I showed this report to the architect (Tyler) and he said he thought the language was a bit severe and that most of St. Louis is covered with fill dirt, but it is decades old. Tyler also advised me to keep the report "just in case". When I spoke with Mike about it, he also said he was disappointed with the language used in the report, but based upon his own soundings of the soil, he was comfortable we could proceed. He also assured me he would stand behind his work. We will see what happens next.
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