Friend wants to by house near stone quarry (Murfreesboro, Franklin: leasing, buying a house)

[MAD King]

Hello community,

I need your opinion. Maybe from someone who lives there?
A friend of mine wants to buy a house near the stone quarry on Franklin Limestone Rd .(see picture)

I work Murfreesboro corner Donelson Pike and every time they blow something up our building is shaking. It can't be good for a living house.

What is your opinion?

Thank you

[alisontu]

I have the same question-- we are looking at buying a house about 1/2 mile from an active and expanding quarry in Raleigh, NC. What are the potential envionmental effects that we should worry about?

[Wmsn4Life]

DON'T do it.

To begin with, quarries bring blasting, truck traffic, road damage from truck traffic, and dust.

Quarries have a very negative affect on property values.

[septimus]

I live probably 2 miles from the quarry in Franklin, it doesn't really effect my quality of life, except I've dings on my windshields regularly. The trucks trying to get to Target annoy me the most.

I have noticed blasting more lately. My house seems to shake every day at noon.

[rossc]

We live about 3 miles away over near the lake. Every now and then you can feel a rumble from the blasting. Never seen excessive truck traffic, but then I wouldn't expect to based on where we are in relation to the quarry.

If the house was not built right, the blasting can cause the foundation to crack and the house to settle un-naturally, which causes drywall cracks, tile cracks, etc. If you get a home inspector, make sure you get one that checks the foundation VERY well. When they built our house 15 years ago, they dug all the way to bedrock, which was 2 feet deeper than code said they had to go, and poured the foundation.

[cantsleepclownwilleatme]

We're currently leasing a house in Nolensville (about to close on a house in Brentwood), and there's active blasting going on in our neighborhood for construction. Cracks have emerged in the seams along the ceiling in part of our very-new lease home. Nails are coming out of the walls from the rattling, and door frames are showing signs of stress.

So -- I'm not sure how the blasting at a quarry compares to new homesite preparation blasting, but I would look elsewhere if you can do so - just to be safe from a property value perspective.