needed some help finding a good structural engineer. Anyone used one before and what was your experience like. Would appreciate your feedback. Thank you And have a good day!
@Jay Lee We used one but you need to post your area to get recommendations. They will need to walk through the areas of the house to inspect, take pictures and will come back with recommendations and in our case a report. In one case they came back with sistering and joist repairs recommended and in another they pretty much told us what we knew which was a foundation block repair.
@Jay Lee a lot more detail is going to be needed on your situation specifics, like why you need one, what your knowledge level is, what your specifically looking for the Engineer to do.
I've worked with several but I'm over 30yrs in housing industry with decades as a builder and multi-journey, so for me I just needed an Engineers stamp, had all prints and details done n set so they were just reviewing and, as said, stamping.
A couple times I was doing something jazzy that I dreamt up myself so there was some interaction about my hair-brained idea, but process was pretty much the same that I had all prints and details completed and it was just review and approvals.
So my experiences have all been very good. But I'm an industry insider basically talking shop.
If a person has little to no experience or knowledge, has little to no idea of what there doing and calls an engineer out expecting them to be quick, cheap or to act like a GC, it's probably going to be a painful experience I'd guess.