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yes, London and on a hill. one neighbour is at the bottom of the hill and has had two lots of underpinning (once for the back of the house and 2nd for the recent side return build). Apparently clay soil (but I would say it's less so towards the surface).

Hello! My Victorian mid-terrace house has developed any cracks - none of them very big or deep - over the past few years. The ones in the walls and ceilings I think I can safely attribute to general movement appropriate to a house of this age. What's concerning me is that floorboard, mainly...

yes, the great rising damp debate. :? Right now the house doesn't have damp. It has been injected, so far I've only seen drill holes in the outside walk of the kitchen so no not sure if the partition walls have been done too. There is a chemical smell in the house and i'm sure whether...

I would like to do a similar sort of thing in the house I'm hoping to buy. It's a bog standard 2 up 2 down Victorian house built in 1880. In the kitchen the chimney breast still exists and would originally have housed what they called the 'Kitchener' (named after Lord Kitchener) which...

thank you all for your helpful comments, am going to nick my dad's spirit level and if it does have subsidence I'll just have to bat the estate agent round the head with it to make me feel better. :D (and not buy the place) Now... what do you lot know about damp? I'll keep you posted!

no it's in south east london.

I am in the process of buying a terraced 2 up 2 down Victorian house which is on a slight hill and resides inbetween two houses, one being end of terrace house. It turns out that the end of terrace house had subsidence and work was carried out in 2000 on the partition wall, that is the wall...