Because the title, this can be our first time shopping for a home. We toured a townhouse in the present day, and close to the rear of the home (on floor flooring – basement) there’s a metal I-beam that appears to not go during the home’s facet wall. It looks as if one finish of the beam was resting on a bunch of unfastened stone tiles (skinny stone flakes that you just put exterior of homes for adornment). I could not and did not need to take away something for additional inspection, but it surely appears odd that the beem simply “rests” on a bunch of stone flakes. I assume a cantilever beam ought to have been bodily fastened by each ends to a home’s partitions to cary the load effectively. We couldn’t examine the opposite finish of mentioned beam, as it’s coated. One other subject is as soon as we went upstair and inspected the opposite facet of the home, additionally close to the rear, we noticed a crack on the wall that runs from the ceiling to the ground, and translate to adjoining flooring molding. The crack is broad sufficient to suit 1 / 4 coin via its thickness. Would anybody have the ability to inform if this crack is expounded to the I-beam subject that I discussed beforehand? I believe it’s laborious to be a coincident that these 2 points arrise at usually the identical rear space of the home, on the alternative sides of one another. Thanks in your time. Please see the album under for just a few photographs I took https://imgur.com/a/ado9Gth