We moved from Texas to Minnesota in July of 2025. We made an offer on a home from Texas after doing a video walkthrough with our realtor. When we arrived in MN we were able to do one walkthrough before we were no longer able to pull our offer. Upon walking through the home in person, we noticed the floors downstairs tended to slope in the center of the home. Additionally, the floors upstairs were also uneven but not in the same places as downstairs. Our inspector and our realtor assured us this is fairly common for homes of this age. They also made us aware that the temporary, adjustable posts in the basement would eventually need to be replaced with permanent posts and that attributed for some of the sloping we were seeing. We were still slightly concerned but we’ve never owned an old home before and we’ve also never lived somewhere with drastic temperature swings so we took our inspector’s advice and went through with the purchase of the home.
Fast forward a couple months & the sloping floors were really stressing me out so we decided to hire a structural engineer to take a look. He seemed to think the sloping floors were pretty normal for a home this age but the basement did need better support so we put in permanent posts as well as 2 additional posts and an additional beam.
Fast forward again about 6 months and we are seeing new cracks develop all over the home. Is this just normal
cracking that appears due basement beam being pushed up a few inches or do we potentially have a bigger problem? I’m wondering if I should hire another structural engineer post basement work?
Any help/advice/experience/peace of mind you can provide is helpful because I can’t stop worrying. Thanks 🙏🏻
P.S. Our house also sits up on a fairly high hill. If that’s anything. 🤷🏻♀️