Surveyor missed huge crack

youth_leader

Good luck, let us know what happens.

I do sympathise, I also had a L3 and the surveyor was unable to lift the carpets or move furniture,  I found out six months after completion the floors were all rotten.,

Section62

netnot said:

Here are the pictures. It is on the first floor. It sounds hollow near the cracks. So guessing that is a good thing. 

Difficult to tell very much from those pictures.  Have you got any showing the whole cupboard and the walls around it?

netnot

So the cupboard is built on top of of the original cupboard that might have been smaller as can be seen in the image , the second door/frame is the original cupboard’s door and the vertical line is the crack that starts from the floor and go to the ceiling as shown in previous picture.

netnot

youth_leader said:

Good luck, let us know what happens.

I do sympathise, I also had a L3 and the surveyor was unable to lift the carpets or move furniture,  I found out six months after completion the floors were all rotten.,

Thanks, We are discovering so many things that would have been impossible to spot during the viewings and surveyor missed them because of furniture etc etc. . We are trying to keep the spirits high as this is our place now. So gotta fix it.

silvercar

We nearly bought a house that had a hidden problem. We knew a previous buyer had pulled out for no obvious reason. We had a full survey and everything looked fine. We were then gazumped by someone who paid an extra 30k (3.5% so not massive). It turned out that the reason the first buyer had pulled out was that the 2 storey extension was pulling away from the house. The sellers solution was to build fitted cupboards, with backs to hide the cracks! We had thought that the bedroom layout was strange, with an excess of cupboards. Pure karma to the gazumpers!