2nd floor wood cracking

laptop80

ceh209 wrote: »

Hang on hang on... a detached coach house? They do houses that float in mid air now do they?

They float on a cushion of cracking noises.

Davesnave

jimbog wrote: »

Not just in the UK apparently. Well dodgy floors here too:

Yes, but why stop at floors?

If the OP wants to 'verify' stuff on-line there's a whole gamut of things the unsuspecting might check.

For example:
asbestos
radon gas
old mine shafts
built-up land on old waste sites,
red ash,
Mundic blocks
Non-standard construction
high silica bricks
broken drains
subsidence
woodworm
flood zones
fleecehold
chancel repair
bats
termites (OK this one is very rare here, but not unknown)


and the worst of all......Neighbours From Hell!

weeg

Should we break it to the OP that the Italian building design codes have about a 95% overlap with ours?

Locksmith4.London

Yes is extremely common in England

Rocksolid

ceh209 wrote: »

Hang on hang on... a detached coach house? They do houses that float in mid air now do they?

Not sure about your funny sentence, but search online coach house UK. Yes, for me that is a new way to interpret the life , but in UK is not.

Davesnave wrote: »

Yes, but why stop at floors?

If the OP wants to 'verify' stuff on-line there's a whole gamut of things the unsuspecting might check.

For example:
asbestos
radon gas
old mine shafts
built-up land on old waste sites,
red ash,
Mundic blocks
Non-standard construction
high silica bricks
broken drains
subsidence
woodworm
flood zones
fleecehold
chancel repair
bats
termites (OK this one is very rare here, but not unknown)


and the worst of all......Neighbours From Hell!

Apparently this will be checked by a property survey.

thearchitect

ceh209 wrote: »

Hang on hang on... a detached coach house? They do houses that float in mid air now do they?

Detached is the appropriate term. As opposed to semi-detached or terraced. All in normal use.

thearchitect

Rocksolid wrote: »

No, never, but I can't trust the quality of something like this... This was 240k 2 bedrooms... Should I spend 240k for such quality? Otherwise the rest was great, also wide garden and garage (maybe some improvement here was needed, like security)


Otherwise I found a 250k 2 bedroom coach house, brand new, but I don't like someone parking under my house, the only pro is that it's new and is detached.
Also here quite confident that those wood bars will move a lot very soon.

Timber framed construction, and timber intermediate floors, are a traditional form of construction in the UK (amongst other places). Their use is recognised in the Building Regulations (or Technical Standards, depending upon where one is in the UK).



As has been explained by others, there is consequently no need to be concerned in principle. The question, which should be addressed in a suitably detailed condition survey, is whether there might be a defect in the particular property/properties which you are looking at.


In practice, as others have said, there are many other more likely areas of concern such as the presence of materials containing asbestos or the risk of rot. That is why an appropriately detailed survey, rather than a simple valuation, is important if you are buying an exisitng property.