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I have posted here before and if anyone needs to, you can read my older threads. Anyway, I had a new lintel fitted last week and was not happy with the quality of the work. The builders cut too much off the new lintel and had to put a small piece of the old lintel (the orange bit at the...

I haven't been here for a while but have posted before so if anyone who reads this hasn't read my earlier posts,it might be helpful for you to read them. I have had a Trading Standards officer out to the house and he said that he would not be happy with the work either. He also passed me on to...

The structural engineer had written in his report the crack caused by the subsidence in the wall should have the mortar raked out along the crack and fresh mortar put in. I emailed the builders about this during the time they were doing the work asking for it to be done, but when they came...

I recently had a repair done on my house for mild subsidence and a new window put in. I had asked for a new lintel as well, but the builders said that the one I already had was ok. (Two other trading standards approved builders had also said that I didn't need a new lintel when they came to...

The builders are coming today to insert stainless steel bars into one of my walls to fix a subsidence crack. They told my friend that they don't use cheaper bars as it would invalidate my insurance (they aren't paying but if I need to make a future claim). Does the grade of bar used determine...

I have builders coming early next month to repair a wall damaged by subsidence and the man from the insurance company said to me last year to ask the structural engineer to come while they are here to confirm that they are putting the right sort of bars in the wall. I am having problems...

My house has some subsidence and the insurance company sent out a firm to fix the leaking drains just over a year ago which had caused the damage. Since then I have tried and failed to find a building firm to do the building repairs. (one company cancelled twice at the very last minute and...

It was arranged for a local builder to come here on a certain day earlier this month to carry out some structural work for me, then they emailed the evening before to say that they were on another job in another area which was taking longer than they had anticipated and could they come this...

My drains were leaking and have caused subsidence. The drains were repaired back in Spring. I have a building firm coming next month to put in bars to knit the cracked brickwork between the bathroom window and kitchen window together (it is a long,narrow crack) and to put in a new kitchen...

A reliable builder I know (he has done small jobs for me and another friend in the past) came today to examine the crack in the back house wall of my house and said I don't need a structural engineer to come, that it is caused by water and isn't a structural problem and getting a report would...

I have cracks in three walls-two external walls and one internal wall, and in two ceilings in my house and I want to get a structural engineer to do a report. Could someone tell me how long an inspection of the whole house should take and how much I would be likely to be charged? Have been told...