Crack in breeze block outbuilding

I wouldn't step through the door, even to get the lawnmower, it looks like a death trap.

It's obviously built on topsoil. Someone bought a few pallets of blocks and walloped it together in a weekend.

Several parts of the walls have visibly sunk downwards, which just wouldn't happen if built with foundations. The whole lot is dangerous, utterly worthless and way beyond repair.

Unless this thread is just a deliberate wind-up, demolition is the one and only option for that utter mess.

Ivor Windybottom said:

I wouldn't step through the door, even to get the lawnmower, it looks like a death trap.

It's obviously built on topsoil. Someone bought a few pallets of blocks and walloped it together in a weekend.

Several parts of the walls have visibly sunk downwards, which just wouldn't happen if built with foundations. The whole lot is dangerous, utterly worthless and way beyond repair.

Unless this thread is just a deliberate wind-up, demolition is the one and only option for that utter mess.

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Gosh you have more knowledge about its construction than what the OP has flagged up in post 7

Dereekoo said:

Gosh you have more knowledge about its construction than what the OP has flagged up in post 7

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Good stir, but look at the highlighted photo in post 8 below.

Whatever it's built on, it's obviously failing to hold it up. Vertical cracks often aren't a big deal, that is sideways movement, normally shrinkage that occurred once after construction. Horizontal cracks are a very big deal, that means that a part of it has moved downwards. That garage foundation may have been a bit of mortar on soil.

I demolished lots of this sort of rubbish at a previous house. There was a 6-foot single block wall that was just bedded on the surface of the top soil. I pushed it over with one hand. Don't ever assume that the person who built something had the slightest clue about how to build, assume the worst and start from there.

That photo showing the crack is enough to conclude that this building is definitely completely worthless and beyond repair.