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Hi,
I bought a house last year that required some substantial (in terms of time) but ultimately time consuming refurbishment. Except for bits like new flooring and kitchen install, some chasing for electrics the most major part was installing a wall lining to a a party wall (lightweight drywall fixed mainly to my floor and floor joists with a single layer of 12.5mm wallboard). Had to do this because the plaster on that wall was in such a bad condition that it would have had to have been a full re-render and re-plaster job. This was all then skimmed over (as was the whole house, walls and ceilings). It's been noisy as a lot of cutting for laminate flooring and drilling into my floor slab. There was some drilling into the party wall for the wall lining just for wall/rawl plugs and screws for little brackets that act as a restraint for the vertical studs.
Anyway my neighbour sent me some images of hairline cracks running horizontally around a few rooms in her house (including the internal lightweight walls). She sent me some videos but hasnt had a surveyor out yet. Mostly appearing horizontally below coving (in the walls) and above coving (in the ceilings). There is also one straight crack in the ceiling that looks to be on a joint between plasterboards. Mostly upstairs but one room has it downstairs. She had her upstairs skimmed around Sep 2021, downstairs I saw was being skimmed around Nov/Dec last year, or at least decorated. It's affecting all four walls in one room and is affecting numerous internal lightweight walls in her property.
Her claim, subject to a survey, is due to the work I've been doing in my home. She's made noise complaints already, about a few man days into the work, when the wall lining was being installed.
I've attached some of the images she sent me.
To me it looks more like shrinkage/cracking from the skimming she had done but I may be wrong.
I bought a house last year that required some substantial (in terms of time) but ultimately time consuming refurbishment. Except for bits like new flooring and kitchen install, some chasing for electrics the most major part was installing a wall lining to a a party wall (lightweight drywall fixed mainly to my floor and floor joists with a single layer of 12.5mm wallboard). Had to do this because the plaster on that wall was in such a bad condition that it would have had to have been a full re-render and re-plaster job. This was all then skimmed over (as was the whole house, walls and ceilings). It's been noisy as a lot of cutting for laminate flooring and drilling into my floor slab. There was some drilling into the party wall for the wall lining just for wall/rawl plugs and screws for little brackets that act as a restraint for the vertical studs.
Anyway my neighbour sent me some images of hairline cracks running horizontally around a few rooms in her house (including the internal lightweight walls). She sent me some videos but hasnt had a surveyor out yet. Mostly appearing horizontally below coving (in the walls) and above coving (in the ceilings). There is also one straight crack in the ceiling that looks to be on a joint between plasterboards. Mostly upstairs but one room has it downstairs. She had her upstairs skimmed around Sep 2021, downstairs I saw was being skimmed around Nov/Dec last year, or at least decorated. It's affecting all four walls in one room and is affecting numerous internal lightweight walls in her property.
Her claim, subject to a survey, is due to the work I've been doing in my home. She's made noise complaints already, about a few man days into the work, when the wall lining was being installed.
I've attached some of the images she sent me.
To me it looks more like shrinkage/cracking from the skimming she had done but I may be wrong.
