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1 <br />1 <br />Mrs. Ann Tatum <br />March 16, 1995 <br />Page 4 <br />1 /16" displacement. Other cracks are found where a closet connects to the west wail of this <br />room. <br />Downstairs at the west side of the lintel over the 8 foot wide opening into the family room <br />there is a significant crack at the north end that extends from the ceiling down to about 5 feet <br />from the floor which has opened wider to the top displacement of about 3/16". There is an <br />en-echelon type of tearing in the lower portion of this crack. At this location the sense of <br />movement is north wall out. <br />The living room extends back to the kitchen occupying most of the north half of the home. <br />There are two windows and a door in the north, exterior wall. At the door there are some <br />minor cracks in the plaster, one extends diagonally off the top west of the door frame, <br />extending up to a ceiling beam. There is an indication of possible previous minor cracking off <br />the east corner of the door frame. The west end of the north wall appears to be relatively <br />crack-free, as is the west wall that separates it from the kitchen area. There is a large <br />fireplace in the center of the south wall. There is some minor cracking around the hearth, but <br />that is localized. There is a crack along the east end of the hearth where it connects to the <br />wall, hairline to 1 /16" top to bottom cutting through the fresh recent paint. <br />In the kitchen there is a vertical crack at the northwest corner of the kitchen over a closet near <br />the entrance to the basement. There is also cracking in the plaster with a diagonal component <br />extending to the wall in the area behind the refrigerator, and the side door entrance. <br />There is a maid's apartment in the northwest corner of the house. The apartment consists of <br />a bedroom with a small bathroom at the northeast. There is notable plaster cracking at the <br />southwest corner of the bedroom. What appears to be relatively fresh plaster cracking with <br />a diagonal component extends away from the corner of the wall two feet below the ceiling. <br />Some of the apparent displacement here is probably due to peeling and warping of the plaster, <br />but the crack itself typically has 1 /8" displacement in the upper half of the wall. This crack <br />is very fresh and has actually popped the plaster slightly, and has an en-echelon appearance. <br />The sense of motion is an extensional feature in the top half of the wall. There is a window <br />in the west wall. A diagonal crack that looks quite fresh extends off the north corner of this <br />window. It initiates about a foot below the top to the lintel. There is a crack vertically off the <br />top corner. There is some cracking in the very top of the west wall at the northwest corner, <br />which may be due to leakage through the roof as opposed to having a structural cause. There <br />are minor hairline cracks in the top half of the wall at the northeast and northwest corners of <br />the room. There is also some minor plaster cracking in the bathroom, some of which looks <br />like it might have been there before and was painted over and has just opened up a little bit. <br />BASEMENT AND CRAWL SPACE <br />The basement has poured concrete walls and appears to be part of the original construction. <br />There is a sump in the east central part with standing water about 5 inches below the top of <br />slab. The sump has been excavated into the natural ground. The sump used to have a pump. <br />There is a recently installed gravity drain extending outside the house to the north. There is <br />t:~projectc~26018~26018.rr~m <br />