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    Mortar different colour on garage conversion

    The original brick is one that Persimmons used but it's discontinued. The builder said he'd tried all the places he knows but couldn't get a good match. The window just matches the rest of the windows on the house... I don't want to render, it cracks, needs upkeep like painting and I'm not a...
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    Mortar different colour on garage conversion

    The guy who is tinting the bricks only saw the difference of brick colour, he didn't see the mortar as it wasn't built at that point. I just had the brick sample.
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    Mortar different colour on garage conversion

    We've just had our garage converted into another room. The builder was unable to get a good match of colour for the bricks so we are going to get the bricks tinted and that is being done next week. However, the mortar looks to be a completely different colour to the existing mortar. This is...
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    Moving the sink

    Great, thanks. Not planning on having any electricity in the island, more just for extra surface space and to double up as a breakfast bar.
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    Moving the sink

    We're in the process of buying a house and I'd ideally like to change the layout of the kitchen. We'd need professionals in to do this, not a DIY job, but I just wondered if anyone knew how much work would be involved to move the sink and the washing machine so that they are against the main...
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    Subsidence - how is it confirmed?

    He didn't say what the fill material was, so I've no idea. I know that in the report, it says that the ground the house is built on is able to withstand large weights, so not prone to subsidence, but yeah, didn't say anything about what fill material was. I felt he was sitting on the fence a...
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    Subsidence - how is it confirmed?

    Thanks. The structural engineer has said historic subsidence on the back corner of the house. He can't see any evidence to suggest it's ongoing, but suggested having heli bars put in and then it is likely no further problems will occur. But then someone told me you can't definitely determine...
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    Subsidence - how is it confirmed?

    We have a crack that runs down the side of our house (I've posted about it on here before) and I just wondered, can a structural engineer tell if it's subsidence just by looking at and around the house, or does the ground need to be dug up to check and the cracks monitored? Just wondering how...
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    Do you need to go back to brickwork when re-rendering a pebble-dash house

    Our house is pebble-dashed and we are thinking about having it rendered. The house across the road recently had their house done. Their house was like ours, fully pebble-dashed, but they had the top half re-pebble-dashed and the bottom half rendered smooth. She said that it was a lot cheaper...
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    Vertical crack on outside of house

    Also just took a walk down a couple of roads alongside ours, looks like a relatively common problem. There seem to be quite a few houses with very similar cracks.
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    Vertical crack on outside of house

    Thank you, that makes me feel a bit better! Our house is south facing so the back of the house does get a lot of sun, and we have had a couple (not many being the UK) of very hot summers, or of course the excessive rain we can face as well.
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    Vertical crack on outside of house

    Thanks. Sorry, probably a stupid question, but I literally know nothing about this, do you think this is a result of subsidence then, or something separate? The house used to be my grandad's, we bought off him before he died 15 years ago, and my mum grew up here, and she is adamant that the...
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    Vertical crack on outside of house

    Thanks for the replies. I've emailed a couple of structural engineers to see how much it will cost to come out and take a look. I think it is just standard brick. We do have another similar crack by the kitchen and I'm able to remove a bit of the pebble dashing/cement and this is what it...
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    Vertical crack on outside of house

    We bought our house about 15 years ago now. It is pebble dashed and when we bought it, we did note some cracks down the outside wall of the house. Our survey came back saying that the house had suffered some previous movement, but there was no evidence to suggest this was ongoing. The...
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