The Traveling Engineer
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 & 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't. Let's talk.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 3 minutes
- Episodes
- 69
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Traveling Engineer 9 Contractors on dope
Today I got called back to a newer home that was screwed up by the contractor. The framers actually put the walls eight inches away from where they should have been. This means that the footing doesn…
Traveling Engineer 8 Cabins and settlement
I was called out to a 7000 square foot "cabin" in the mountains near Fairview UT. This hummer had settlement on the front left corner, where the bedrooms are. The area was of course mountainous, and …
Traveling Engineer 7 Adding a basement
You would think that it should be easy to convert a crawl space into basement. Not so. Here's one example of why
Traveling Engineer 6 Construction goes bad
Sometimes contractors suck. And sometimes it's intentional. Here's how I help those kinds of clients
Traveling Engineer 5 No cantilever needed
So I had a customer that called me to check out his house and design a cantilever support
This is for a 1928 bungalow that he is remodeling. After I got there we found that this old lath and plaster w…
Traveling Engineer 4 Stairstep cracks in a rambler
Got called out on a quick one. The appraiser didn't like the stairstep cracks he saw on a brick and stucco rambler. Should the buyer walk away? I had an answer for that one today.
Traveling Engineer 3 Shelf basements and sewer lines
I had a client that was concerned about the structural condition of his 1920's bungalow. A previous homeowner had run the sewer line through the shelf on the back side of his shelf basement, and left…
Traveling Engineer 2 Converting a basement window to a doorway
I get a lot of calls from homeowners who want to convert their basement to a rental or something for the ma-in-law. This was a fun one for me to do because the dude was Samoan. I love polynesians - d…
Traveling Engineer 1 Attic trusses and structural walls
Wondering if that wall in your home is structural or a partition wall? So was this client. Here's how the roof type affects that and how this inspection turned out