Our knee walls are bowing, the concrete block below it doesn't look to bad, though it has some cracking. A structural engineer said the bowing was 2.5 inches and when it gets to three it will fail and the house will collapse. It was built in 1929. We had it sold, but this statement from the structural engineer killed the deal. Foundation guys want $90K+ to rebuild all four walls. A builder said it might just need new knee walls. Another builder said it's fine, no need to do anything (although nobody will buy it in this condition). We don't know what to do. I saw a post from Jerry who said he had an article on this topic, but I messed up trying to request it. Any guidance anyone has would be greatly appreciated since we aren't sure what to do.
