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Since I contacted the Town Building Inspector regarding my concerns, I have communicated directly with him. He has discussed these items and concerns with the builder. After the Building Inspector sent the builder back, a couple of times to fix the problems, we noticed there were gaps between some door jams and hard wood floor. The floor has sagged about ¼â€

After our house was built, I took a close look at our crawlspace, concrete block foundation piers, main beam and floor joist. I noticed that the pier tops were not level, the main beam was tilted, there were 1 1/2" wide wood shims between the piers and the main beam, these shims only went in about 1" on both sides and the floor joist were floating -not touching the top of the main beam. Contacted the building inspector and he told the building to fix the problems. The builder came and the work he did was not acceptable. I contacted a structural engineer. He inspected the piers, main beam, floor joist and shim. The engineer said it was not acceptable and gave me paper work and drawings on how it should be built. I gave a copy to the building inspector and he in turn gave the builder a copy of the drawings and told him to fix the problems per the engineer's drawings. The builder came out and still his work was not acceptable. The building inspector told the builder to contact the engineer and get his guidance. Now for some reason the engineer told the builder it would be okay to put 3 1/2" wood shims parallel to the floor joist not perpendicular and only on one side between the beam and floor joist. None of these shims go in the full width of the 6 " beam. What are your opinions? Click to Enlarge 43.78 KB Click to Enlarge 24.22 KB Click to Enlarge 52.47 KB Click to Enlarge 56.09 KB