Should I cancel my homebuying contract?
Hi folks, we did home inspection for a home that we are under contract located in the Midwest. While everything above ground is well maintained, the previous works done in the crawl space really had me worried.
See pictures taken by the inspector - it looked that the house is built on open web truss, which doesn't normally need beams (I looked this up). However, the previous owner, for unknown reasons, decided to put in 4*6 beams beneath the open web truss and the wood beams are supported by lally columns that are not fixed to anywhere other than stack of lumbers. My suspicion is that there must be something off such as flexing on the floor that caused the previous owner to put in those beams.
I am not an expert in home structure in any means, so would appreciate your thoughts if you have seen anything similar in the past. How difficult do you think it's going to fix this? I don't want to fix a problem that is caused by another problem, so if we were to fix (or have the seller's credit to fix), we would want to really fix the whole situation by maybe replacing with metal beams to help support the stcuture?
TL;DR: There were beams added beneath what appears to be open web truss. The beams were being cut into pieces, and supported by lally columns not fixed to the ground or the wall.
Thank you all!
