My mid-terraced house dates back to 1870 and is built from concrete-like blocks whose face is around 1.5ftx1ft (I am a beginner in this sort of thing); described in our survey when we bought the property as "unusual but sound".
We now have a horizontal crack in the render and a small crack reaching down from the same "concrete" window sill on the first floor. Would I use the same render-repair methods outlined above or do I need a specialist? From having read the comments on this subject above, I am assuming that the cracks are due to water getting in from dodgy soffits, holes in the render from a new BT line being run up the front of the house and from render being cut away for the replacement windows.
I'm also assuming (and here I am being really niave) that there is no structural cause, as the horizontal crack carries along across the face of both next-door neighbours, one of whom recently bought the house with a structural survey that said no subsidence.
Any help gratefully recieved.
Thanks.
We now have a horizontal crack in the render and a small crack reaching down from the same "concrete" window sill on the first floor. Would I use the same render-repair methods outlined above or do I need a specialist? From having read the comments on this subject above, I am assuming that the cracks are due to water getting in from dodgy soffits, holes in the render from a new BT line being run up the front of the house and from render being cut away for the replacement windows.
I'm also assuming (and here I am being really niave) that there is no structural cause, as the horizontal crack carries along across the face of both next-door neighbours, one of whom recently bought the house with a structural survey that said no subsidence.
Any help gratefully recieved.
Thanks.