As an Atlanta home inspector I often find funny things all the time during my Atlanta home inspections that make you ask the age old question “what we’re they thinking?”  During this Atlanta home inspection I found where the deck was built and one of the support post had a stump as the footer.  Now I’ve seen some pretty unique footing systems during my home inspection career, but this one really made me laugh.  I was able to insert my screw driver all the way into the stump with very little pressure at all.  Now hopefully most of you know why this is a problem but just incase you don’t here is the issue.  As this stump is rotting, it is allowing the post to sink, which in turn makes the deck unlevel.  Now that is not the biggest issue. The biggest issue is the strain that this puts on the items that attached this deck to the house.  In older homes they simply used nails and other items instead of lag bolts.  If that is the case here, then you’re looking for a major accident to happen once the party moves outside on the deck.  Most deck post are supported either by a poured footer or at least a concrete block. 

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