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LuisaV
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Hello,
I hope someone could help us. We have been trying to buy our first home for a while. We encountered many problems, such as spry foam insulation in the loft, Japanese knotweed in the garden in out previous attempts of buying a house. At present, we have an offer accepted on a house we love but I am really anxious because the house next door has a protected oak tree at the beginning of their front garden, it is about 8 mt from hour front door and it has been looked after really well so it is also shorter than 10 mt. The house is a 1950 house built on a mix of clay and loamy soil with poor drainage and has no history of subsidence.
I relaxed about the tree, since it looks like it has been there forever and the house does not have any cracks apart from a couple of cracks in the newly installed cornice in the lounge.
However, at the back of the garden, there is a little patch of concrete when there is a manhole, which has a big crack. From our video in the garden, you can see the crack is very big and goas from the concrete patch across the lawn. I am attaching photos. I hope someone could advice us on what is that about and whether we should be concerned for subsidence or any structural damage on the house and what we should be looking out for?
I would be very grateful if anybody could share their knowledge on the matter.
I hope someone could help us. We have been trying to buy our first home for a while. We encountered many problems, such as spry foam insulation in the loft, Japanese knotweed in the garden in out previous attempts of buying a house. At present, we have an offer accepted on a house we love but I am really anxious because the house next door has a protected oak tree at the beginning of their front garden, it is about 8 mt from hour front door and it has been looked after really well so it is also shorter than 10 mt. The house is a 1950 house built on a mix of clay and loamy soil with poor drainage and has no history of subsidence.
I relaxed about the tree, since it looks like it has been there forever and the house does not have any cracks apart from a couple of cracks in the newly installed cornice in the lounge.
However, at the back of the garden, there is a little patch of concrete when there is a manhole, which has a big crack. From our video in the garden, you can see the crack is very big and goas from the concrete patch across the lawn. I am attaching photos. I hope someone could advice us on what is that about and whether we should be concerned for subsidence or any structural damage on the house and what we should be looking out for?
I would be very grateful if anybody could share their knowledge on the matter.
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Probably the line of the drain from the manhole to..... wherever? Septic tank? Mains drainage? drainage field?1
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Thank you, it is a good point...there should not be a septic tank as far as we know, the garden backs onto a train track and just fields beyond. The crack line seems to go towards the neighbour garden ( not the one with the oak tree). These neighbours have been carrying out renovation works and their garden is currently being re-levelled we assumed. Although, I think the crack may be older?propertyrental said:Probably the line of the drain from the manhole to..... wherever? Septic tank? Mains drainage? drainage field?
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Doesnot answer the question though. What IS beneath the manhole and assuming it's a drain access, where does the drain go?
Is the house on mains sewerage? Sometimes septic tanks are shared between properties osit could be in the neighbour's garden.....
Or I might be leading you up the garden path!0 -
Are there photos still available of the garden taken from when it was sold before? (e.g.Zoopla archive photos from the property history) that may helpGather ye rosebuds while ye may0
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