Hi everyone.
I am in the process of buying a house and we just discovered that there was some work done to outside wall and gable under NHBC. House is a town house in Mansfield just outside old quary and it‘s 11 years old.builded in 2003
in 2009 owner made a claim aboout outside wall flexing in the wind and that the ties are exposed, claim has been accepted and company called gelder Ltd has been picked to fix the issue.
They installed new ties (metal rods) every 1m on the outside wall and some of the wall was rebiulded what you can see on the picture(different colour of mortar...)
but then when was inspected by NHBC in 2011 they said tey are happy with the work but you can hear old ties grinding inside the wall in the gable area on the wind... so they got original builders to pull the old ties out of the wall...
My question is if the rod ties has been installed why the wall was still moving? I can‘t see any other reason for the old ties to rub inside the wall but wall was still moving under the wind. taking them out will not stop if from moving?
is there anything to worry about?
We has a home buy report done as they advised us that with a new house that is all you need but he didn‘t even mention that anything was done to the outside wall etc so we should seek structural engineer advice etc...
Any input welcome
Cheers
I am in the process of buying a house and we just discovered that there was some work done to outside wall and gable under NHBC. House is a town house in Mansfield just outside old quary and it‘s 11 years old.builded in 2003
in 2009 owner made a claim aboout outside wall flexing in the wind and that the ties are exposed, claim has been accepted and company called gelder Ltd has been picked to fix the issue.
They installed new ties (metal rods) every 1m on the outside wall and some of the wall was rebiulded what you can see on the picture(different colour of mortar...)
but then when was inspected by NHBC in 2011 they said tey are happy with the work but you can hear old ties grinding inside the wall in the gable area on the wind... so they got original builders to pull the old ties out of the wall...
My question is if the rod ties has been installed why the wall was still moving? I can‘t see any other reason for the old ties to rub inside the wall but wall was still moving under the wind. taking them out will not stop if from moving?
is there anything to worry about?
We has a home buy report done as they advised us that with a new house that is all you need but he didn‘t even mention that anything was done to the outside wall etc so we should seek structural engineer advice etc...
Any input welcome
Cheers