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Wall cracks - structural engineer unsure?!
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Or a dealer.martin1959 wrote: »Or a gynaecologist0 -
About 18,600,000 results in (0.33 seconds)Marshall86 wrote: »The estate agent suggested googling for someone who specialises in cracks0 -
You need to hire your own structural surveyor.
If they make a mistake and you lose thousands, you should be able to sue them.
If you rely on a report made for someone else you have no come back.Changing the world, one sarcastic comment at a time.0 -
apparently an old school way of telling if a crack was stable was to super glue a glass microscope slide across the crack, if it didn't break the crack was stable!0
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I've never seen one - where does one buy a glass microscope?dividendhero wrote: »apparently an old school way of telling if a crack was stable was to super glue a glass microscope across the crack, if it didn't break the crack was stable!0 -
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And if after the slide broke you could put your hand in the crack you knew it was serious.dividendhero wrote: »apparently an old school way of telling if a crack was stable was to super glue a glass microscope slide across the crack, if it didn't break the crack was stable!0 -
Seems to me you could have saved yourself a lot of bother by just putting your hand in the crack without bothering with the glass microscope (slide).And if after the slide broke you could put your hand in the crack you knew it was serious.
(I understand Structural Engineers refer to this as 'the fisting test'.0 -
Not heard of that... Should I Google it????0
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Doozergirl wrote: »Christ on a bike :rotfl:
Regardless of whether your EA was born yesterday, you do need to take your own advice and not that of a previous buyer's. They clearly didn't have a structural engineer's report anyway. They must have had the survey and gotten cold feet before doing the full research, as many people do.
Don't take anything this particular EA says as being backed by even the most basic of knowledge about property.
I ended the comment with a
because I know what she said was ridiculous 0
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