Inspection of Home

The following is referring to cutaway of the home in the graphic below.

After visually inspecting the home you find the following:

• Crawl Space is dirt and measures 18' x 25'.
• There is a small 8" x 14" square hole in the side wall of the crawl just above the floor.
• The basement measures 25' by 45'.
• Floor drain is trapped.
• Sump pit is dry. Pump is submersible type.
• Exterior drain tiles only.
• One large wall crack by below grade window.
• Moderate cold joint varying from tight to 1/8" in some places, cold joint is tooled poorly leaving bits of concrete along wall.
• Basement floor has typical hairline cracking.
• Small gaps around water and sewer pipe entry.
• Furnace (not shown) is draft-induced gas forced air.
• No heating supplies or returns opening in basement or crawl.

1. How would you proceed?

2. Would you do any additional diagnostic testing at this point? If so what?

3. Would you change your estimate price if given?

4. What mitigation steps are needed for an active radon reduction system?

5. Where would you run the pipe?

6. How many possible locations are there to run suction system piping and what are they?

7. Why is it that the dirt in the drawing looks like crumpled brown paper?

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Information Your Received from the Homeowner