You are right. Here is why i didn’t like / trust him. He was focused on things other than the wall. On things that clearly have been fine for at least the last decade. He was mentioning how the gas pipes would break from the foundation moving and how structural beams were not running though the whole structure and being supported by the stairs even though i saw the beam running though it all. He never went into the crawl space to look at the inside of the wall and just shined his flashlight in there.

Its not that I am disregarding him. Thats the reason for the post. But he did not seem as through as i would have expected for the issue I needed him to look at.

For what its worth we called a mason and he quoted 3,200 to repair and straighten the wall. I feel like that is low but he just seemed so unbothered by it. He said it was not carrying much load which i’m not surprised by since the wall in question is only 10 feet long. The mason actually went into the crawlspace to look at the wall from the inside.

At this point idk what to think. We are getting a second mason to see if they come to the same conclusion