Garth Haslem is a structural engineer, licensed in Utah. He has performed structural inspections since 1993. Garth is the structural engineer that will go out to homes, identify problems and then provide solutions. He does settling foundations, cracked walls, sagging beams &amp; headers, damaged structural columns, manufactured homes, damaged rafters, and the list keeps going. He also consults on homes that have been damaged by fire, flood, wind, earthquakes and even explosions. Purchase consults? We do that. Putting a walkout door in your basement? Need a lintel? Yeah we do that. Need structural piers? Maybe you do, and maybe you don&#39;t. Let&#39;s talk.

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Nobody wants things like tot, mold and termites in your basement. Keep your foundation dry and I t will take tare of you

Traveling Engineer 67: A lake in the theater room

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Buckling, cracks and overlong spans - oh my!When a home is old, chances are good that it wasn&#39;t built to today&#39;s standards. That&#39;s bad enough, but add funky additions by grampa Joe&#39;s brother in law and the ravages of time and weather? Now it&#39;s getting a bit much. This home needs a capable buyer

Traveling Engineer 66: OMG everywhere

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Come contractors are good. Others belong in jail. Here&#39;s what to learn from the second kind.

Traveling Engineer 65: Bad contractors

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Ok it was the middle of cactusville. And the tiny home blossomed from 130 Square feet to double that. 18 acres. The dude was pretty interesting though and I enjoyed meeting him. We got him covered with the county

Traveling Engineer 64: Tiny house time

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We all want to serve humanity, even if sometimes it doesn&#39;t help our wallet. But sometimes you wonder if you&#39;re just enabling a taker. This was one of those moments

Traveling Engineer 63: Giving to takers?

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I had a professor once who could do math in his head. I wanted to be nerdly like that too. Here&#39;s how I use that skill now

Traveling Engineer 62: Math in my nerd head

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If the contractor makes you sign a non disparagement clause, what might that tell you about the contractor?I ruined an agent&#39;s day today but protected two of my favorite clients

Traveling Engineer 61: slab crackery and contractor quackery

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What does it mean when there is a horizontal crack in the foundation? I&#39;veseem this a lot lately

Traveling Engineer 60 Horizontal crack in the foundation

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Sometimes I can make a client&#39;s day by telling them about what it&#39;s nor

Traveling Engineer 59 That's not structural

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When the 70&#39;s happened there wasn&#39;t as much knowledge as perhaps there should have been. 30 foot span with 4 on 12 pitch and 22 feet on center 2x4s is a formula for uh-oh. Here&#39;s what we decided

Traveling Engineer 58 Rafter abuse

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I got a near panicked call from a commercial property landlord. She said that the wall and ceiling had separated and you could see daylight. Yeah that&#39;s frightening. Here&#39;s how it went.

Traveling Engineer 57 The gap between wall and roof

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When the foundation is cracked and it&#39;s all you can afford, who do you call? Well, me.

Traveling Engineer 56 Cracked foundation

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When you&#39;re not a home inspector or engineer, sometimes you know that the water in the basement is a problem but you don&#39;t know exactly how to fix it. And when the neighbor contributes to the problem, how do you manage that? I helped a woman today.

Traveling Engineer 55 Flooding and the wrong fixes

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Sometimes cities get grumpy and want 30 year old structures permitted. Here is how I helped the client

Traveling Engineer 56 the old shed

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Sometimes grammar thinks he&#39;s fixing problems. And sometimes he is really causing them.

Traveling Engineer 55 Jacks, blocks and beams- oh my!

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When the slab is supported by nothing besides Air, there is drama. In this case, the soil had settled about a foot.

Traveling Engineer 54 Voids beneath the slab

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You gotta love it when someone finds a way to change up the old tried and true. What was the old reliable is now just old. Here is how Deck building is being revolutionized.

Traveling Engineer 53 Revolutionizing the deck building process

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When a bus and a hotel wing collide, both lose. I did a special inspection today where the epic battle occurred

Traveling Engineer 52 when buses attack

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When a dude wants to upgrade his shed to something awesome, something you can cross swords with the city and nosy neighbors. I helped this client sort it all out

Traveling Engineer 51 A centennial structure

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What happens when rock and mortar meets a heavy 2 story Brick structure, as well as a garden next to the foundation? Well, that would be a 5 to 6 figure Bill.

Traveling Engineer 50 rock and mortar meets poor drainage

The structural engineer who leaves the office

You'd think that structural engineers all come in one flavor, right? A generous scoop of nerd with a little bit of calculus sprinkles on top. Well, that's true.

But Garth is more of a neapolitan structural guy. He leaves the office and goes to houses where it can be settlement, flooding, landsliding, beams, piers, partition / structural walls, basement stuff, or would-I-be-crazy-if-I-bought-this-place sort of stuff.