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This is what I wrote:- It is not down to you as an insured party to inform insurers that you are suffering from subsidence. You only have to report the defect/damage that is apparent if you feel that the costs involved are going to warrant a claim. You should note however that building...

Whether you can or not, you really don't want to. You have structural calcs, sap calcs, drawing approvals,all sorts of info that requires approval. A building control officer wont approve structural calcs on site for example. It all takes time. So you go the building notice route - Your builder...

Houses of that age often have timber lintels behind brick arches; if the external pointing is poor, and you said that the rear elevation was re-pointed, you get water ingress through the brick joints and the lintel starts decaying. As the lintel slowly collapses, the brickwork supported by it...