Cripple Walls

[RVerDon]

I am selling a house. One of the questions in the disclosure statement refers to cripple walls. What are cripple walls?

Don

[James Owens]

If you search

for "cripple walls" you get many informative pages.

One says, "As shown in the figure, a cripple wall is a short wall that rests on the foundation and supports the floor and exterior walls."

-- "For it is only of the new one grows tired. Of the old one never tires."

-- Kierkegaard, _Repetition_

James Owens, Ottawa, Canada