SUBSIDENCE HELP?!

sbird90

Hi I hope someone can help 

I noticed the wall paper crinkled and blackened in the top right hand corner of our dining room (where ceiling meets wall - wall is an external wall) I pull the paper back thinking it was mould/damp but found a funny looking little hole and then noticed the full wall from top to bottom seems to have been filled in with a polyfiller type material. The right of the photo is where our house joins next door (semi detached) but there’s also a boiler in a cuboard on that wall and the filled in gap runs right down past that too and can see a few more gaps near the dado rail. Looks like it could be on the ceiling of the same wall too. House was purchased a year ago, now worried the previous owner has been naughty and hid subsidence?! (They faked a EIC so wouldn’t put it past them). 

Attached photos will get more if needed. I don’t want to contact my insurance company if it’s not subsidence 

DayDreamerandGeneralWaster

It might not be subsidence. What does it look like outside?  Even if it is, it can't have moved in the last year as likely the wallpaper would be damaged.

Water might be getting in as there is mould, you need to stop that. Could it be from condensation or a pipe into the boiler leaking? Condensation from the warm of the boiler and cold of outside wall?

sbird90

DayDreamerandGeneralWaster said:

It might not be subsidence. What does it look like outside?  Even if it is, it can't have moved in the last year as likely the wallpaper would be damaged.

Water might be getting in as there is mould, you need to stop that. Could it be from condensation or a pipe into the boiler leaking? Condensation from the warm of the boiler and cold of outside wall?

Thank you for your reply. I just had the boiler serviced and that’s as fine would a leak have been picked up from that? 

The little hole and mold on its own wouldn’t have worried me it’s the fact there has been a clear crack/gap all the ceiling to floor in the “V” where two walls meet that’s clearly been filled in (below the hole you can see the grey) that’s worried me? 

There was stepped crack external that’s been repointed before we moved in. Survey did say wall tie failure could be the reason, x2 builder said not wall ties (no bowing) but both picked up the window doesnt have an lental (??) and probably that.