subsidence

[EFLImpudence]

Not an electrical problem but someone will know the answer.

I manage a property owned by my daughter where the tenant reports that the small rear garden is subsiding.
There is a row of properties so it can't be the only one to have the problem.
Well, I suppose it may be at the moment.
I haven't seen it yet as it is 100 miles away.

It is built at the top of a very steep, very high hillside.

Can anyone tell me please to whom this should be reported for investigation?

Is it anything to do with the council or do I need a private surveyor of some kind.

 

[mfarrow]

If it's happening in the back garden of the house, it's an insurance job first and foremost.

The council won't care to do anything, any more than they would do coastal errosion.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Ah. Thanks.

I had thought it would be an insurance job but not about informing them straight away.

Let them sort it all.

 

[^woody^]

Don't mention the s word to insurers. Even the mention of it is enough to hike premiums and even cause some to not even quote.

A small rear garden can't really subside, it could just be soil shrinkage. Get more details our ask a local building surveyor ....... or gardener to have a look

 

[Nige F]

Never trust a tenant If it`s anything like our Sussex Clay it`ll be about 1 inch away from the house wall with a 2 foot deep crack

 

[EFLImpudence]

A small rear garden can't really subside,

Never trust a tenant

I do have a lot of experience of tenants and have wondered.

Thanks.

I have heard from the insurers and have been informed to get a builder to look at it first.