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Home owner in need of guidance as soon as possible please. I am no bulding expert so excuse any technical ignorance.
We have a terraced town house and had an open plan kitchen project completed July 2019. It involved the removal of an entire 6m wall on the side return, then replacing it with a 6m girder. We’ve had an architect, structural engineer & seemingly decent team of builders involved so had no reason to think anything would go wrong.
Following the removal of the props we saw cracks around windows on first floor above the open plan area and some cracks in corner of the bedroom also above. These were what we were told to expect so they were plastered over & for several months we’ve seen no return of cracking until recently. We also noticed soon after that the landing above the open plan area now sloped a little from party wall with neighbours down into bathroom, then up again to the wall above the girder. I got the structural engineer back to look at this and he concluded it was all normal with a house this age type of work (though it has always alarmed me that the floor now did this as you can feel it dip as you walk along the landing).
All remained the same until about a month ago when I noticed a crack in first floor wall in a new place above stairwell. I went up to the loft yesterday to check it and saw what looks like a pretty big crack in the party wall with neighbors loft (see image) a little further down the loft an old chimney breast that remains in the loft has also cracked in 2 places.
I can’t say how long the loft cracks have been there but my 2 yr old son has his room above the open plan area which makes me I be worried about this and what should I do?
Cheers
Home owner in need of guidance as soon as possible please. I am no bulding expert so excuse any technical ignorance.
We have a terraced town house and had an open plan kitchen project completed July 2019. It involved the removal of an entire 6m wall on the side return, then replacing it with a 6m girder. We’ve had an architect, structural engineer & seemingly decent team of builders involved so had no reason to think anything would go wrong.
Following the removal of the props we saw cracks around windows on first floor above the open plan area and some cracks in corner of the bedroom also above. These were what we were told to expect so they were plastered over & for several months we’ve seen no return of cracking until recently. We also noticed soon after that the landing above the open plan area now sloped a little from party wall with neighbours down into bathroom, then up again to the wall above the girder. I got the structural engineer back to look at this and he concluded it was all normal with a house this age type of work (though it has always alarmed me that the floor now did this as you can feel it dip as you walk along the landing).
All remained the same until about a month ago when I noticed a crack in first floor wall in a new place above stairwell. I went up to the loft yesterday to check it and saw what looks like a pretty big crack in the party wall with neighbors loft (see image) a little further down the loft an old chimney breast that remains in the loft has also cracked in 2 places.
I can’t say how long the loft cracks have been there but my 2 yr old son has his room above the open plan area which makes me I be worried about this and what should I do?
Cheers