#structural-inspection

#structural-inspection

While a standard home inspection looks at the interior and outside of a home for wear and tear or items of concern, a home inspector may only note if something seems off with the structure. A structural inspection by an engineer answers the harder questions: Why is it happening, and is it serious? A structural engineer often has years of experience and understanding when it comes to the safe construction of homes and commercial properties. When they inspect a home, they're looking to see how the house is holding up: the foundation, beams, joists, roof trusses, and load bearing walls.

Crews have pulled out a sanitation truck that fell into a sinkhole in Toronto on Tuesday. The truck went to unload a portable restroom beside an apartment building on Weston Road near St. Phillips Road, when it fell through the driveway into a parking garage below, according to Toronto Fire Platoon Chief Thomas Verhaeghe. Toronto Fire Services was called to the scene shortly after 8 a.m. The truck was pulled out of the sinkhole hours later.