Recent content by Hazel80

Yes - ours will have three solid walls with just the front facing wall being glass windows/doors and the glass roof. Anyhow what I was really interested in knowing is there appears to be 2 types of hipped lantern, one which is aluminium with plastic cappings, i.e. K2, Quantal and the other type...

it will be used as an extension to our living room and we are hoping to use it as a casual entertaining area.

We are having an Orangery built and wondered if anyone has any comments on the make of glass aluminium roof to use. This room will be used 24/7 and is quite large some 5x4m roof will be approx 4.5x3.5m have looked at K2, Quantal and other makes, we do want this roof to last as it will become an...

We have had an open fire for a few years and have been told that the cracks in our wall is due to the chimney the other side of the wall. We are looking to replace open fire (baxi) with a woodburning stove. Will this cure the heat issue? or do we have to take further action to contain the...

Thanks Woody, but we saw the cracks/break in the pipe when the company put in the resin injection, they surveyed our drains prior to injection to locate them. The issue is that the insurance company are still suggesting that this was not the cause of our cracks and that it was due to...

THANKYOU, BUT I SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE SPECIFIC. WE HAD CRACKS IN OUR INTERNAL WALLS WHICH OUR INS CO SAID WAS DUE TO POOR/EROSION OF INFILL (HOUSE BUILT 1984) OUR CONCRETE FLOOR HAD SUNK THEY SAID. AS IT WAS INTERNAL WALLS THEN WE HAD TO PAY FOR POLYMER INJECTION. THE COMPANY WHO DID THE...

CAN ANYONE HELP GIVING ADVICE ON SOIL MOISTURE ANALYSIS. WE ARE SURE THAT WE HAVE LEAKING DRAINS UNDERNEATH OUR PROPERTY AND HAVE RECENTLY HAD SOIL TESTS CARRIED OUT(NOT BECAUSE OF THIS) WE NOW WISH TO UNDERSTAND OUR MOISTURE CONTENT EVALUATION. IS THERE A GRAPH/ANALYSIS WE CAN LOOK AT TO SEE...

I'm reopening this subject as I have had the repair carried out by resin injection. This was what was recommended by ins co. However, when the guys came to carry out injection they put camera down our drains, found that the pipes transversed under our property and also saw cracked drains in the...

Thanks both. Just to clarify, our cracks are wider at bottom than the top, some start from a corner and run diagonally up the wall towards the centre of the property. We also have a couple of newish cracks that are horizontal and go from one door opening across to the next. It does give the...

Thanks. The cracks are evident at all times they are creeping further along walls. They do not close up, and we are getting spur cracks from the originals. They are horizontal and reach the floor before they reach the ceiling. They are wider at the bottom and middle. One interesting fact is...

Thanks for info - we have carefully checked our external walls and they do all appear in very good condition, excepting our porch entrance has a crack very low down and quite small, this has been attributed to the slab. Our property was built on a a small spinney which had quite a few birches...

Hi, we have a problem with our 3bed bungalow, 1000sq ft living space with breeze block walls. Having had some internal cracks looked at by our loss adjuster, we have movement of our concrete slab floor due to poor consolidation of subbase. Unfortunately our insurance does not cover this. He has...

Thanks for info so far, all seems like bad news. Have found someone who is a Chartered survey engineer, is this OK, not certain what chartered means.

Thanks for info but I am a little confused, whom should I ask for an assessment of the problem, I guess SE means structural engineer? This is all sounding very expensive, granted we have internal wall cracks but we have no evidence of any floor movement internally. All doors open/close without...

Our 3 bed bungalow was built in 1985. Exterior walls are brick on concrete foundations and the internal walls are breezeblock on concrete slab. We have clay soil and a oak tree 12m from the point of the closest wall crack. All our cracks are on internal walls (not loadbearing) and the 3 which...