Should I have said something?

Tiger_greeneyes

lazygoose wrote: »

Don’t mean to sound pedantic, but I have heard of surveyors asking for pebble-dash to be re-moved to inspect wall brickwork! rare but true!

Whatever you've heard, I very much doubt it was for a mortgage survey! More likely to be a structural engineer checking into serious defects such as structural movement, for instance.

I regularly used to come across quotes from my surveyors to the tune that "the condition of the brickwork cannot be ascertained until the pebbledash/render is removed". It didn't mean that the vendor had to remove it all before a sale could progress, though!

Nobody would ever be able to buy anything if surveyors could demand properties were taken to pieces

PROFESSIONAL_LANDLORD

when we got the walls plastered we thought it would go away, but, it didnt,




It would have ! if the plasterer had used tape over the crack, then plastered the wall. Many properties have cracks, could just be a bit of historical movement in the building.

lazygoose

Tiger_greeneyes wrote: »

Whatever you've heard, I very much doubt it was for a mortgage survey! More likely to be a structural engineer checking into serious defects such as structural movement, for instance.

I regularly used to come across quotes from my surveyors to the tune that "the condition of the brickwork cannot be ascertained until the pebbledash/render is removed". It didn't mean that the vendor had to remove it all before a sale could progress, though!

Nobody would ever be able to buy anything if surveyors could demand properties were taken to pieces

Valid points :undecided , or it could just have been the buyer's
way of worming out of the deal? :eek:

courtjester

The fact that the crack is only on the inside and you confirm there are no visible problems externally, suggests that this is almost certainly not important.

The reason the crack probably keeps re-appearing is not because the wall is moving but because the filler is shrinking away from the plaster /brickwork. Use of a flexible filler, decorators sealant or even 'nomorenails' type glue will probably seal it for good.

If the house were moving, there would likely be other signs such as external cracks, distortion of internal doors, windows jamming, problems with drains etc.

marybishop

Funnily enough, surveyors haven't got x-ray eyes so if there's a wardrobe and a chest of drawers in the way that's what he will probably have said in the report and therefore will have covered himself. Otherwise the vendor would have to remove every item of furniture/carpet/etc out of the house for him to do the survey. So your vendors will find out about the crack when they move in and it won't be down to the surveyor!

Tiger_greeneyes

lazygoose wrote: »

Valid points :undecided , or it could just have been the buyer's
way of worming out of the deal? :eek:

Could well be, lazygoose I'd say it's more a case of interpreting the report wrongly and panicking - ie, the buyer got spooked because the surveyor couldn't see beneath the pebbledash and mentioned that there there may be a problem (in his usual standard-wording way, naturally!). Sounds far more likely to me