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Viewed house - cracked mortar
volgyij
Posts: 4 Newbie
Hi
I've found a house that I like and I am tempted to put in an offer. However there is a diagonal crack in the mortar above the neighbour's front door towards this house, and also a crack inside the entrance porch area.
The vendor says they have never noticed the cracks, have never been flagged up in their surveys, and are "most likely" old cracks from before they moved in 6 years ago.
I would obviously get a survey done, but don't want to waste my money if it is something potentially serious.
I've uploaded a few photos here:
imgur.com/a/ML5Qw15
Does anyone have experience of this sort of thing?
I've found a house that I like and I am tempted to put in an offer. However there is a diagonal crack in the mortar above the neighbour's front door towards this house, and also a crack inside the entrance porch area.
The vendor says they have never noticed the cracks, have never been flagged up in their surveys, and are "most likely" old cracks from before they moved in 6 years ago.
I would obviously get a survey done, but don't want to waste my money if it is something potentially serious.
I've uploaded a few photos here:
imgur.com/a/ML5Qw15
Does anyone have experience of this sort of thing?
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Doesn't look too serious. Check for nearby trees. Your mortgage surveyor may flag it up and drop the mortgageable value down by £15k. That's ok if you don't need to borrow to the max.0
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I think I'd definitely be getting a structural opinion on that. I'm assuming the interior shots are the partition wall between the two front doors?
Looks like something's definitely having a bit of a sag. It's not just slightly cracked mortar, the gaps between the bricks have definitely opened up. It's not necessarily the end of the world, but it might be a first clue of a real problem.0 -
How old are those properties? 80 years?
Has anything significant happened recently eg local mining? A new motorway nearby?
If they've not fallen down by now, and nothing new has happened to make them fall down, they are not about to fall down....0 -
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Thanks for the replies.
To answer some of your questions, there are no trees nearby, nothing has changed in the area, and the house is about 100 years old.
One thing I forgot to mention is that I also went to see another house a few doors up that has been rented out for 15 years and not looked after well. That house had cracks on the inside of the bay window, and another crack across the lounge ceiling and wall on either side...0
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