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    Help with telephone line

    Thanks, Kinda kicking myself, should have checked in there. I assumed whoever did the wiring connected alike colours together. As it turns out, blue and white/blue on the main income then get crimped into green and green/white. So I linked up those green cables into the blue terminals in the...
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    Help with telephone line

    Hi, We had a perfectly functioning landline which had been there since we moved in, it’s a Virgin Media one and was just a regular telephone socket on the wall with a wire going outside to the sealed plastic VM box. we had some building works done tail end of last year and it got...
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    Can a floor slab move independently from a wall?

    It hasn't, a wall/corner of brickwork has.
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    Can a floor slab move independently from a wall?

    Bit of an open ended question I'm sure, but scenario is this. Single skin brick garage with concrete floor, approx 100mm thick (as I've drilled a hole through it). Is the floor independent from the wall, i.e could the wall sink/raise and the slab stay still or are they integrally linked?
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    Why is my extension "glued" to my house?

    Hello, My property has had a small "extension consisting of a dwarf wall and UPVC upper, I suppose like a conservatory but not quite as grand. Where the dwarf twin skin cavity wall meets the main house there is a 15mm or so gap filled with what looks like silicone sealant that has begun to...
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    Garage has sunk in one corner - advice

    I'm trying to avoid the insurance if possible, for the very reason you say. There may come a time where it's unavoidable then no doubt the property will be relatively worthless which is my biggest fear. Yes this is unknown and probably will remain so. The current inhabitants of nextdoor who in...
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    Garage has sunk in one corner - advice

    Hi Woody, I've just realised that I've missed out probably one of the most important points about this issue, as this thread was initially posted before I found out. Next door, the right hand side in that picture, 10 years after it was built (originally in 1977), was demolished and the ground...
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    Garage has sunk in one corner - advice

    Hi Woody, thanks very much for your reply, this issue has been causing me many sleepless nights. I've had the foul drains CCTV'd which showed no obvious breaks and that things seemed to be flowing fine. I have not yet had the other drains looked at, presumably I'd need nextdoor's permission for...
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    Swapping old wall thermostat for new

    I've got a Drayton RTS1 replacing an old Randall unit. There's 4 wires wired up as follows, Yellow = 1, Blue = N, Red = 3 and Green is Earth; 2 is empty: The new unit looks like this, Obviously neutral is self explanatory, 3 I'm guessing goes to 3 on the new unit making yellow "live" ? If...
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    Garage has sunk in one corner - advice

    Hi John, Sorry if I was unclear, it's not been underpinned that was my plan of action that's all. Cheers
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    Garage has sunk in one corner - advice

    My plan was to arrest further movement initially, and carry out repairs, which are ostensibly aesthetic at a later date. What I had planned is digging out a trench to the footing around the front corner and inside the garage to say halfway back, seeing if there's anything obvious, and...
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    Garage has sunk in one corner - advice

    Excuse my ignorance, legal advice? To what end? I'm not being argumentative at all just wondering what legal advice would help me with, is it a case of who to pursue or.. ?
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    Garage has sunk in one corner - advice

    That's interesting, what makes you say the garage is on a concrete raft? I'm not disagreeing at all but curious to know the type of foundation it might be on. No mining activity but nextdoor had problems years ago, in the 80's, due to the area previously being farmland and their property (not...
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    Garage has sunk in one corner - advice

    Hi Nige, Thanks a lot for your reply, it did cross our mind too. It's on my neighbours boundary so I guess I'd have to ask permission to do such a thing. I'll have a word - we're in that awkward phase at the moment of skirting round the fact I think it's something to do with them when we chat...
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    Garage has sunk in one corner - advice

    Any ideas or suggestions would be great, me and a builder friend have just about run out of ideas?! Cheers
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