Victorian concrete houses

jc808

Has anyone got one of these? Thoughts?

27col

Is there such a thing?

savemoney

Yes there was on example may be pre dated Victorian on one of Sarah Beeny programs "help my house is falling down" this year it had issues with concrete breaking up it was a terraced house


http://www.channel4.com/programmes/help-my-house-is-falling-down/episode-guide/series-2/episode-4

Sarah Beeny meets recently engaged couple Mark and Gudrun whose Warwick home is crumbling to dust
Mark and Gudrun's Victorian terrace is constructed from an early, experimental concrete mix. The walls are now crumbling and Mark's renovation work has uncovered severe decay, meaning many of the rooms are now too unstable to live in. Sarah and her team of specialists probe the walls and find large sections that are little more than dust.
Also, the original slates on the roof have been replaced with much heavier concrete tiles, adding too much weight to the increasingly fragile home below. And to top it all, the cottage timbers are being eaten by woodworm.
As Mark and Gudrun face mounting bills, their planned wedding is delayed indefinitely and they're stung to realise that their seemingly bargain home is worth considerably less than they paid for it. Sarah and her team of specialists need to come up with an innovative solution to this extreme situation.

MX5huggy

The particular problem there was that they used slag from iron workings as the aggregate, when iron rusts it expands by about 10 times so the concreate was being blown apart by it self. This slag was used because it was local and cheap. You need at the very least a full structural survey ideally from a specialist if considering buying.

Yorkie1

As it sounds like non-standard construction, getting a mortgage on it may be troublesome.

ormus

theres a couple on the isle of wight. at least one in south london.
a few thousand were built before 1900, but still pretty rare though.

concrete names to google are ransom, henrique, monier, and coignet.