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Hello John Thanks very much for your thoughtful response. I think you've given me confidence that the met sockets could work if the foundations were strong enough but also that it just seems like a better plan all-round to just go with the wall to the right so I think I'll do that. Had not...

Hello Just moved into a house with a fairly shoddy back gate and fence and so looking to replace. Below is what is there at the moment and so am looking to replace asap. Was thinking about mounting the gate to a 100x100mm fence post with a concrete fixed metpost on the left avoiding the wall...

It's a loft conversion, the picture is from the eaves storage either side of this bedroom.

My buyers have pulled out of our purchase as they felt there was just too much to be done following a L3 survey. I think it was vastly over played but am now wanting to remedy things that actually do need doing as we're going to be here for a while now and these things will only keep showing up...

Thanks Woody, why is there so many alarmists out there especially when the builder in question was so casual about everything else! I don't get it.

Hello everyone, it's me again with the saga of the structural survey. Spoken to the engineer and a local builder who comes highly recommended and both have mentioned this lintel as a possible issue. The engineer thought it wasn't urgent but the builder was much more concerned, despite the fact...

Absolutely understand this and appreciate we may loose all of our costs so far but at the same time don't want to continue at what is probably an inflated price for the totality of the house, especially in a market where nothing seems to be moving. We're not just playing th game though, we do...

Thanks cdbe for taking the time to read this through, appreciated. We did carry out the survey with the express purpose of knowing the full extent of a problem with the purlins in the roof and then because the general appearance of the house was shabby. We didn't expect anything back except the...

Wow yes that is a really good point and something to look out for in future. Honestly the estate agent on this one has been one of the worst so wouldn't be surprised if they were a bit trigger happy with the wide angle lens! Yes I think it would have been remiss of him to not point this out as...

Yes i suspect you're right.

Incidentally, I have never been able to understand how the wall behind the washing machine is indented but clearly isn't on the plans. Is that any clue?

Yes I'd say so judging from this photo

And this is another interpretation of the floorplan for 'our' house from a listing in 2018

I was wrong this is next door, according to the measurements this is the same length of kitchen even if the floorplan makes it look totally different:

Thanks Harry and Ivor. I think I follow your thread but cannot be totally sure. I think you're saying though that he may have a point as a full bath and person alongside a solid wall would surely put a lot of weight on that floor. On the flipside, the owner must have had a bath or two in her...

Just for clarification this was a 'Full visual Structural Engineer’s report' done by a structural engineer and NOT just a survey.

Just saw this in the report and thought it might be more important for this issue: There is minor ceiling cracking, 0.5mm wide or less. To the walls there are no signs of any structurally significant defects showing through the decorations. There is minor diagonal stepped cracking emanating...

We can get a CCTV survey of the drains done fairly easily and inexpensively but if this finds nothing then what would be the likely reason for this 'movement'? Is the drain really a likely candidate or are we now saying it is unlikely to be subsidence at all?

Chers, yes Woody has been very helpful with this stuff but thanks for your input too, it has been very useful.

Thanks for this. We are very green to this and so a report from a structural engineer that says these things is alarming to our untrained eyes! It is good to get perspective on this.