Structural Engineering Services

Builders, architects, and designers: plan review and stamping is the core of what I do. Send me the structural set and I'll review it and seal it, usually entirely from your drawings. Fixed fee, one round, and you deal directly with the engineer whose stamp is on it. Email travis@thewallguy.com.

For homeowners, the next lines down are wall removals, beams and headers, decks, dormers, and additions. Every one of them ends in the same deliverable: stamped, permit-ready engineering from a licensed Connecticut PE. If you're not sure which category your project fits, call me at (860) 519-6009 and describe it. Takes five minutes and I'll tell you what you actually need, even if the answer is that you don't need me.

Plan Review and Stamping. For builders, architects, and designers who need a structural set reviewed and sealed by a Connecticut PE. Usually runs entirely from your drawings.

Load-Bearing Wall Removal. Open up a kitchen or combine rooms. Beam sizing, posts, connections, and the stamped letter your building department requires.

Beams, Headers, and Posts. Sagging beams, garage door headers, undersized members. Sized for the actual loads with connection details your contractor can build.

Decks and Porches. Ledgers, footings, and framing that pass inspection the first time. For homeowners and the contractors who build them.

Dormers and Roof Restructuring. Shed and gable dormers, ridge beams, and the roof framing changes that make attic space livable.

Additions and Bump-Outs. Framing and foundation design for added space, including second stories.

Framing Repair and Retrofit. Rot, notched joists, overspanned members, sistering. Fixes designed for what is actually there. On a Register-listed house the repair scope is written to the Secretary of the Interior's Standards, so the work can go into a historic homes tax credit application.

Structural Inspections and Letters. When a bank, insurer, or building official wants a PE's opinion in writing on a specific structural condition. Sagging floors, storm damage, framing questions.

Foundation Evaluations. Written evaluation letters on cracks, bowing walls and settlement, including pyrrhotite concerns in affected towns. I do not design foundation repairs. When the question is in the ground, the letter says so and names the specialist.

Light Commercial Alterations. Small alterations to existing buildings: storefronts and tenant fit-outs. Not new construction, multi-story, or ground-up shells.

How Every Project Works

Call, text, or email and describe the project. For homeowners, you get one fixed price on that first call, before any work starts, and we put the site visit on the calendar while we're on the phone. Text me whatever photos you have before the visit and I'll go through them the night before. I take my own measurements and verify the structure in person, then run the analysis at my desk and walk you and your contractor through the options. Your stamped letter typically follows within a few business days of the visit. That one price covers the job start to finish, including any revisions the building department asks for.

Design professionals and repeat contractors: plan review and some projects can run entirely from your documents, on a separate rate sheet. Email them over and I'll tell you what I can do.

What I'm Not Currently Taking

So nobody wastes a phone call: I am not currently taking commercial projects beyond small alterations to an existing building. If yours is bigger than that, call anyway and I'll point you toward someone who does it. Litigation support and expert witness work are priced on the call.

Schedule Your Site Visit

Call or text (860) 519-6009, email travis@thewallguy.com, or send a message to get started. Serving all 169 Connecticut municipalities.