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Hi everyone,
My 1930s detached house has stepped diagonal cracks in the front brickwork, difficult to see from the pictures but the cracks originate in the decorative brickwork above the porch and stagger up across the left had side of the front.
There doesn't seem to be a huge gap between, but can see the mortar has cracked. There are some cracks in the render in internal walls on that front left bedroom, mainly starting from the window and moving across the internal wall (have no pics of that at the moment, as I am at work).
I'm mainly worried about it being due to subsidence, the affected wall in the house is adjacent to a more recent extension (late 1980s), and can see no examples of any cracks in the newer part of the house, nor anywhere else in the old part of the house.
Some things to consider:
- Live next to a mildly busy main road (small town, but before the bypass was built maybe 40 years ago it would have been much busier)
- Clay soil area
- Have some issues with puddles forming on gravel driveway after wet weather
- No sign of any cracks lower than the ones shown
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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My 1930s detached house has stepped diagonal cracks in the front brickwork, difficult to see from the pictures but the cracks originate in the decorative brickwork above the porch and stagger up across the left had side of the front.
There doesn't seem to be a huge gap between, but can see the mortar has cracked. There are some cracks in the render in internal walls on that front left bedroom, mainly starting from the window and moving across the internal wall (have no pics of that at the moment, as I am at work).
I'm mainly worried about it being due to subsidence, the affected wall in the house is adjacent to a more recent extension (late 1980s), and can see no examples of any cracks in the newer part of the house, nor anywhere else in the old part of the house.
Some things to consider:
- Live next to a mildly busy main road (small town, but before the bypass was built maybe 40 years ago it would have been much busier)
- Clay soil area
- Have some issues with puddles forming on gravel driveway after wet weather
- No sign of any cracks lower than the ones shown
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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