Cracks

youth_leader

I do feel for you, it's an anxious time after an offer, I was very stressed.  I was under offer and in my haste to take the hall xmas lights down, cracked the gothic arch shaped glass in the porch.  My house was listed and had 4 mm glass - very luckily I had a multi-talented joiner doing work on a windowsill and he managed to source the glass and replaced.  

verytired11

youth_leader said:

I do feel for you, it's an anxious time after an offer, I was very stressed.  I was under offer and in my haste to take the hall xmas lights down, cracked the gothic arch shaped glass in the porch.  My house was listed and had 4 mm glass - very luckily I had a multi-talented joiner doing work on a windowsill and he managed to source the glass and replaced.  

I was not expecting to be this anxious!  I don't mind knocking a bit off the asking price, but I just want to sell and move on and dreading the thought of it all falling through or something major and horrendous being discovered on survey.  It's as if I still have the aftershocks of when we bought it of it then recently having had subsidence, even though that had been resolved and was so long ago.  A last minute damage to a listed building must have been stressful!

FreeBear

AdrianC said: Looks to me that the little stub of skirting is better attached to the door frame than the main skirting, and it's just a bit of normal movement over the decades since that corner last saw any great love.

I wonder whether a good whack with a hammer & block of wood at the bottom of the frame would be enough to close the gap up a bit. Worth a try, but slapping caulk/filler in and then painting is going to attract attention to that one spot.

verytired11

FreeBear said:

AdrianC said: Looks to me that the little stub of skirting is better attached to the door frame than the main skirting, and it's just a bit of normal movement over the decades since that corner last saw any great love.

I wonder whether a good whack with a hammer & block of wood at the bottom of the frame would be enough to close the gap up a bit. Worth a try, but slapping caulk/filler in and then painting is going to attract attention to that one spot.

Thanks, I don't think I would risk it in case it caused further damage!  I had wondered as well about whether it's worth filling it in prior to survey.  Probably the time to do it was prior to viewings, since it either is or isn't a problem, and putting filler in isn't really going to hide a more serious problem from a surveyor.

JJR45

If you do not want to fill it a well placed natural looking item (door stop etc.) in front of it maybe best.
But to be honest it does not matter if it does draw attention (filling and painting) to it if the wall is not cracked.