Hi all,
Purchased my first house six months ago; a detached property, approaching 20 years old. The house has previously suffered no structural issues, externally no remedial work appears to have taken place, and internally all looks sound.
Going back a couple of weeks ago, while in the property I heard a loud bang. I couldn't figure out what was the cause until a couple of days ago when I then noticed a vertical crack has appeared at the corner of my property, and now I've put two and two together.
The crack extends from the DPC all the way up to the roof line. It goes inline with the mortar and goes straight through several bricks. The wall itself is single storey as it is a side wall for the garage that extends out further than the rest of the house.
I've since checked the internal wall, and the breezeblock mortar on the side wall that connects to the front facing brickwork of the garage has larger crack, around 3mm. There is a lot of debris in this crack, so it looks old.
I did have cavity wall insulation installed two months ago. Lots of heavy drilling going on, is it possible that put some extra stress on the wall and potentially caused this?
I have the family builder poping around over the weekend to take an initial look, and I'll go from there. At the moment I'm just curious.
I've included a picture below showing part of the external crack and can provided more if required.
What's the prognosis?!
Purchased my first house six months ago; a detached property, approaching 20 years old. The house has previously suffered no structural issues, externally no remedial work appears to have taken place, and internally all looks sound.
Going back a couple of weeks ago, while in the property I heard a loud bang. I couldn't figure out what was the cause until a couple of days ago when I then noticed a vertical crack has appeared at the corner of my property, and now I've put two and two together.
The crack extends from the DPC all the way up to the roof line. It goes inline with the mortar and goes straight through several bricks. The wall itself is single storey as it is a side wall for the garage that extends out further than the rest of the house.
I've since checked the internal wall, and the breezeblock mortar on the side wall that connects to the front facing brickwork of the garage has larger crack, around 3mm. There is a lot of debris in this crack, so it looks old.
I did have cavity wall insulation installed two months ago. Lots of heavy drilling going on, is it possible that put some extra stress on the wall and potentially caused this?
I have the family builder poping around over the weekend to take an initial look, and I'll go from there. At the moment I'm just curious.
I've included a picture below showing part of the external crack and can provided more if required.
What's the prognosis?!