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didn't get back in light to take the whole perspective today, but attached another one I took yesterday with more showing. the damp proof course is two bricks under the ridge - not sure why there is a ridge but all the houses have this at the front. you can see the window in this one - it's...

Thanks for your comments - I'll try and put up a photo of the whole perspective thing later. On a snowy walk earlier, I noticed even more of the houses have the same crack, in most cases it seems to have just been filled with mortar. It is cavity wall (with, no filling as it's early 1950s...

The houses were built on farmland. They were built for workers at a local facility and have a local reputation as being very solidly built, they are very sought after. Would it be foundations if lots of them have the same issue in exactly the same place? There are no cracks anywhere else. If...

Hello - we need to decorate the whole of the upstairs of our house. it's an early 50s house and there are numerous hairline cracks in the plasterwork and round doors and ceilings along the panels. The walls also have various lumps and bumps. Rather than strip back to the walls and replaster...

i have the attached small crack on the external front wall of our house (1950s build). it is underneath the middle of the front window. it doesn't go into the foundations (or below the damp course) but has widened slightly over the last few months. it is at it's widest in the middle. there is a...

wall crack