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I think you probably need a comprehensive examination of the property by a builder and/or surveyor.

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A bit of Polyfilla will sort that out...

Doozergirl

I'd get a structural engineer in. You probably don't need a written report, but advice on what action needs to be taken to build it to a point where it's sound.

There will be a fair amount of weight in that wall even if it isn't a supporting wall itself (which we have no clue about), so it's not surprising that it would deflect if it isn't supported adequately from underneath. It looks like the wall plate has deflected too, so you want to be up in the loft looking at what is happening there too.

I really wouldn't take advice from anyone but a structural engineer.

TELLIT01

I agree with getting a structural engineer in but would suggest getting a full written report. That can be used as the basis for getting quotes for the work to be done. It doesn't look like the kind of job for a casual DIYer, assuming that is what the OP is.

stuart45

This was quite a common method of doing the partition walls in the 70's. Once the chippies had tacked the ceilings and laid out the sole plates the walls were stuck up and pinned to the ceilings
Often 2 or 3 inch blocks were used. Indents in the external walls were often in the wrong places or missing, and the sole plates didn't always match the joists.
Sometimes it's easier to knock down a wall and stick up a stud wall.

stuart45

Have you considered Hardboarding the floors?

stuart45

It's thinner(3mm). Chippies job rather than mine, but I can remember them saying it's shiny side down and wet them first and use ring shank nails to prevent popping.

Fire_Fox

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And to top it off, my upstairs walls seem to be built on top of a 2x4 plate that sits on top of floorboards... and that's it. The upstairs floorboards all need replacing because they are battered and splintered over the years

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Could you rotate between de-nailing (claw hammer)/ prise up (crowbar)/ bash up (rubber mallet, from below), flip over and screw the upstairs floorboards back down?

Flip underside-topside and topside-underside. Sorry I know what I have seen done or 'helped' with, but few proper names or terms. !!!!!! is 'de-nailing' actually called??

You will obviously need some reclaimed floorboards, maybe as little as one upstairs room. :money: Any neighbouring properties having any floorjng done?

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And the green is where the side of the original steel frame window just hangs free into the cavity. It is not fixed to either skin of bricks/blocks! Come to think of it, I can't imagine how the top and bottom are fixed either

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Maybe the cavernous holes saved your window boards from death-by-condensation. :T Good natural ventilation. :T

The window boards in my city-centre flat are totally wrecked.

Water-resistant MDF has swollen warped and cracked, sloppily glossed after fitting, corroded screws ...... Courtesy of just fifteen Winters below double-glazed steel-framed windows. No thermal break (pre 2002 BRs) so condensation drips and runs down.

I genuinely have window board envy! Yours have survived decades! :drool: Post me 3 x 1M and 1 x 2M pretty please?

Maybe I will try to source reclaimed floorboards .... and a patient joiner .... :think: