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Thanks very much all for your feedback, it's been extremely helpful. I managed to grab building control when they came round yesterday and, along with my builder, we had a proper look at the cracks. Building control concluded that they're happy that the crack is aesthetic but that for a 'belt...

I thought the haunching would be made visible as cars/people shift the gravel around? If the pavers are a couple of inches thick that doesn't allow much room for haunching.

Hi all, Planning on turning our concrete drive into a gravel drive with block paver path leading to the house. I was planning on doing the path first then gravelling around it. Given that the path will just have gravel either side, how should I keep the pavers in place at the sides? I'm...

Hi all, 5 years late to the party but if anyone comes across this post, wondering how to clad their pre-fab garage, I've done a blog post about how I clad ours. Hope it's of some use! https://project-number-nine.com/2020/08/26/cladding-a-concrete-panel-garage/ Jack

Thanks for the details, Tony. What would you recommend as next steps? I've shared my concern with our builder but as expected he's played it down and says it just needs plastering over... Don't fancy shelling out for a structural engineer myself but seems v. unlikely that our builder will foot...

Thanks everyone for the feedback. Sounds like it wasn't done particularly well and there are some concerns. Do you reckon I should ask builder to get a structural engineer to look at it (although I'm sure they'll say no) or would it be worth getting building control to look at the cracks next...

Thanks Tony. So do you reckon it would be a case of just being made good rather than a structural engineer having a look? Appreciate it's difficult to answer that just from a few photos.

Here's a couple of photos of when the steels were in position but still supported by acrows until padstones were added/had cured.

Hi all, Hoping for some advice on some concerningly large cracks that have appeared during our extension build. They appeared during the couple of days that the acrows were in place to support the back wall of the house and another smaller structural wall that's required a short steel. The...