Recent content by nips

Sorry for the silence so far - finally managing to hold a meeting with our engineer this PM, and will be able to provide an update.

That's a brilliant response, thank you Ken It's been 16 months since the inside of the wall was covered (by stud wall plus wool insulation, plasterboard, then plaster) and there are no cracks visible internally. On first visit (pre inspection hole), the structural engineer suggested there was...

More questions is good! We haven't noticed any movement in the last three years (i.e. since moving in), but it hasn't been monitored properly - neither we nor an engineer have measured it over time for changes. The cracked wall was peviously single-skin brick, bare on both sides (the section...

I've recently had some underpinning design work done, and it's far more extensive than I'd hoped. I'm hoping to get advice here on how thorough I need to be. Thanks in advance to anyone who reads this! We have a semi-detached 60s ex-council house, which had a flat roofed outbuilding joined...

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