I'm getting conflicting stories from a few structural engineers. There's the guy I hired and then there is the guy the tract builder hired.

Both engineers agree the foundation is bowed due to bad water drainage, but is withing tolerance.

One says the lintel above the garage is failing.

The other says it is due to the foundation movement.

The symptoms:

* Crack in the mortar from the edge of the lintel up to the roof.

* The wooden frame of the garage door is coming out from the masonry. All the Caulking has spaces not.

* If I take a level in the middle of the lintel and rock it back and forth, It moves about 1/2 an inch on the outside, which to me, means it is bowed.

The tract builder agrees to repoint the mortar, but will not agree to fix the lintel or to promise to fix it in the future.

Worth hiring more guys to come out at $500 a pop?

Any insight?

Would the cracks be on the outside and one side only like this? Or would the crack occur in the middle?