Recent content by AlexGTR

Location, Large, 3 bedrooms, Large garage. A home is what you make it, what looks like crap to one person is anothers gold! And, i have just posted pictures of cracks, not really much to like there anyway :lol:

Hi all, Just a quick update if anyone is interested. We ended up going ahead with the house and are hopefully picking the keys up on Tuesday next week. We got a Structural Engineer in on recommendation from my bosses wife and they were excellent and very helpful. They checked all the...

Yes, I am not to pleased with the survey and the experience I had with the guy. He ended up sending me two PDF's one full of unlabelled pictured and the report in writing that didn't reference any of the pictures. The survey seems very lazy and like he is trying to cover his own back. We are...

Thanks for all the comments guys. It looks like a lot of money will be involved getting this house put right. Pretty gutted to be honest as we have been looking for ages and this is the only one that fit the bill.

Thanks for the reply. The cracks on the rendering are on the side of the house, if your are looking at the house from the front it is the right side of the house. They seem to go right down the middle. There are also a couple of cracks at the back of the house in the rendering too but that...

:roll: Are the cracks serious? Does it look like subsidence?

Hi guys, This is my first post on here so, Hi! I'm sure this forum will certainly come in handy when we finally move in to a house (FTBers). I have not done much DIY but am pretty handy so quite looking forward to it. So, I'm sure plenty of people ask this same question - Is this house...