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Environmentol • Monogemenf • Geofechnical
TO: Mrs. Ann Tatum DATE: March 16, 1995
FROM: William J. Attwooll, P.E. RE:
FILE: Our Project No. 25,016-01
SITE VISIT
Site Visit Observations
Tatum Residence
Solitario Ranch
12630 Highway 12
Weston, Las Animas County, CO
On February 23, 1995, I met at the Tatum residence with Carl Gerity of Pioneer Engineering,
Consulting Engineers. The purpose of the visit was to observe the condition of the residence,
and develop engineering opinions with respect to cracks which have developed in the
structure.
RESIDENCE DESCRIPTION
The structure was built in the 1930's, and is an adobe ranch-style building. The adobe blocks
have plaster covering on the outside and inside. The main building is a one-story structure
except for the front end where there is a two-story portion which contains bedrooms. The
kitchen is found at the rear of the house. There is a partial basement below the kitchen area.
Attached to the rear, southwest, of the residence, is a covered patio extending to a garage,
leaving the overall footprint including the residence, the patio and the garage, an L-shape. The
house itself is rectangular.
The basic construction of the residence is stucco covered adobe walls with exposed log ceiling
beams and rough-hewn roof ceiling boards. This is a southwestern style home with fireplaces
inmost of the rooms. For the purpose of this memorandum the front of the house is assumed
to be east.
INSIDE OBSERVATIONS
My observations inside the residence are as follows.
We entered the residence through the rear patio door. This enters into the kitchen, which I
understand has been recently remodeled by the current owners, knocking out some previous
partition walls and adding some skylights. However, the basic log roof beams are still in
place.
The room immediately east of the kitchen is a dining room. There is a fireplace in the
southwest corner, a narrow window in the east wall, and doors to adjacent rooms in the east
a: rd north walls. There are cracks in the stucco plaster in the southeast corner of the room,
where corner the plaster is cracked and moderately buckled up to about 1 /4". The plaster is
probably becoming locally separated from the adobe. At the south wall, at the floor board,
there is a separation at the molding of between 1/13" and 1/4" where there is a relative
outward movement center of the wall. There is minor plaster cracking around most of the
window openings with more extensive cracking at the top. The plaster cracking at the top,
west, end of the window extends up to a ceiling beam. There are also cracks in the plaster
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