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all very helpful and reassuring - thank you very much :)

Sorry - also forgot to mention. The path does not appear to have sagged yet, just the retainaing wall. What appears to be a crack/sag in the middle of the path is how it has always been. The brickwork has probably dropped by about 5-10mm in the 3 days since i dug out that side, although...

thanks all for your advice. we are on clay. i have started digging a trial hole next to house as suggested. i am down to 300mm below the level of the garage excavation and still have not found the house footings - it's brickwork all the way down so far. Floors are all concrete so no chance of...

Hi, can someone please advise. :-( I am replacing my old wood frame garage with new brick garage (single skin with piers). The floor level is about a metre below floor level of house. Whilst digging out the new base I am concerned that I may be undermining the house. The concrete path...