Signs of subsidence?

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  • aj9648
    aj9648 Posts: 1,372 Forumite
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    Sorry

    Is that what you are after.....

    https://twitter.com/payrollexcel/status/882576978846654464
  • Aylesbury_Duck
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    aj9648 wrote: »
    Sorry

    Is that what you are after.....

    https://twitter.com/payrollexcel/status/882576978846654464
    That's better.

    Get that frisbee down whilst you're at it!
  • cam12
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    Its really odd that it has only happened on that specific area - has there been any work carried out there at all?
  • aj9648
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    teneighty wrote: »
    That looks like some fairly serious movement but it cannot be restricted to the top few courses of brickwork.

    Is there any cracking anywhere else, behind the rainwater downpipe perhaps or anything internally? Some of the bricks lower down near the roof (porch?) seem to be a different colour...have there been previous repairs?

    Is the part where the window is an extension? The mortar seems to be a different colour.

    Where I have taken the picture from is an extension, but the crack is in the original part of the house. No cracking elsewhere that I can see. Looked everywhere that I could get access to. No cracks internally either.

    Been here 4 years and not had any major structural repairs or anything like that done.
  • cam12
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    The other post you have about the leak \ damp is that in the same sort of area?
  • aj9648
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    cam12 wrote: »
    The other post you have about the leak \ damp is that in the same sort of area?

    Yes it is. One of the damp guys who came to have a look today didn't think it was related.
  • Aylesbury_Duck
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    aj9648 wrote: »
    Yes it is. One of the damp guys who came to have a look today didn't think it was related.
    Hmm. Who was this "damp guy"? One of those who wants to sell you his company's miracle damp-cure products?

    It would seem to be a coincidence worth investigating. You have a damp area inside in the same part of the house where a gap seems to have opened on the exterior brickwork? I wouldn't dismiss a connection that fast, especially if the "damp man" is who I think he might be.
  • cam12
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    Yes seems like it might be the cause of the wet patch.
    I wouldn't worry yourself to much about subsidence, it doesn't look like a case even though its hard to see from pictures.
    Simply put - you need to get someone round to have a look at it.
  • aj9648
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    Aylesbury_Duck wrote: »
    Hmm. Who was this "damp guy"? One of those who wants to sell you his company's miracle damp-cure products?

    It would seem to be a coincidence worth investigating. You have a damp area inside in the same part of the house where a gap seems to have opened on the exterior brickwork? I wouldn't dismiss a connection that fast, especially if the "damp man" is who I think he might be.

    The guy seem to think it was more to do with the plastering. Wasn't selling anything and said the paint needed to come off, put a membrane cure on and replaster and paint.

    Ill get some others to have a look
  • Doozergirl
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    aj9648 wrote: »
    The guy seem to think it was more to do with the plastering. Wasn't selling anything and said the paint needed to come off, put a membrane cure on and replaster and paint.

    Ill get some others to have a look

    That doesn't solve anything. You don't need a damp "specialist" at all. Especially not the one you just called out who is, frankly, incompetent. That's what you do after you solve the source of the problem, not how you solve it.

    You have a gaping crack in your house and a damp patch that seems to correspond. You do appear to have an interesting bit of movement there and the repair for both will be related. You need a builder, but first you need a structural engineer.

    You can either make the call to your insurers straight away or you can instruct a local structural engineer to come just for a visit, not a report straight away, just to offer an opinion on whether it's large enough issue for an insurance claim. It may well be that you have to take the insurance route, but if the remedy is less than the excess and subsequently increased premiums, it might be worth checking.

    I wonder if the extension is pulling on the house. As asked before, is there no evidence anywhere else? Inside or outside? You could have a look in the loft also. I would think it is somehow related to the extension but it isn't giving many clues.
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