Sinking garage in row

fatmat

Hello, me and my partner purchased our home in 2017, we were aware that it came with a garage roughly 100m down the road in a small block of garages, we wasn’t however informed that they were sinking. 

We own 1 in a block of 4 garages that are affected, furthest right is the main area of damage, and then is 2nd from left. We all get minor leaks in from the tin roof installed (easy fix) I’m just wondering if with the subsiding and large cracking, who’s liable for getting them fixed? I can supply as many photos as possible.

pramsay13

Do you mean they were sinking before 2017?

Did you get the garage surveyed?

I think this will be your responsibility.

searchlight123

whose responsibility? seriously?
you say you weren't told they were sinking. told by whom? did you have a surveyor inspect them? did you inspect them?

welcome to the world of property ownership i'm afraid.

fatmat

So this is our first house and the paperwork just stated that it was purchased with a garage further down the street, we had the house surveyed but I assume  they never did the garage, plus when we looked we actually looked at the wrong garage as the paperwork wasn’t clear. Yeah I appreciate that this is our problem and I accept that. The main problem is that the garages are sinking and it stems from the corner, being 2 away from mine. I can get the brickwork in mine repointed but that doesn’t fix the fact they are actually sinking. 

Le_Kirk

Is the garage owned outright by you?  That is, do you own the freehold?  What, if anything does it say in your deeds about the garage?  Seems like you are going to have to get together with the other owners and come up with a plan and a shared cost to underpin the garages.

fatmat

Yeah we own it outright and I thought that would be the deal, thank you 

pramsay13

Do you or the others actually use the garages?

It might be worth just getting together and selling the land to a builder to flatten the garages and build something on the site.