Utopia2308
New Member
Dear All
I have been reading your posts with great interest and am looking for some advice on how to speed up (mission impossible?) a claim against NHBC/Redrow for investigation into the movement cracks to our both 3 story town house and garage.
A claim was initially raise by the previous owners within 2 year of the house being built for a 1mm by 180mm long crack on the rear garage wall. We bought the property 6 months later of this claim knowing about the crack at which NHBC reported as being minor and no breaches our technical requirements were found.
Brief synopsis of our current situation. 1.5 yrs later we noticed that the initial reported crack on garage wall is now measuing 7mm gap, tracks not only along the morter line but also is breaking bricks and affect 3 out of four walls and to the untrained eye garage seems to be slipping or twisting off of damp membrane on one corner by as much as 15mm.
Cracks are now appearing on our exterior of the rear elevation of the house, which is connected to the garage on all 3 levels and these cracks are also mirrored on the internal walls, staircase is moving and ceilings are cracking. The site has had Redrow/NHBC visits and inspection pits were dug to look at the foundations one year ago and monitoring strips were sited on house and garage.
We fear that NHBC and Redrow are using delay tactics and are not taking seriously our concerns that the house and garage may be subsiding. Our house is an end of a terrace of 5 town houses and the inital surveyor said that because the house seems to have been built on a floating/raft foundation should it be suspected that it is subsiding all of the block will need to be demolished! Wether that is true or not who knows but obviously we want resolution asap of the unsightly cracks and for our fears to be either confirmed or laid to rest once and for all.
Many thanks in advance of any advice you can give me.
Kind regards
I have been reading your posts with great interest and am looking for some advice on how to speed up (mission impossible?) a claim against NHBC/Redrow for investigation into the movement cracks to our both 3 story town house and garage.
A claim was initially raise by the previous owners within 2 year of the house being built for a 1mm by 180mm long crack on the rear garage wall. We bought the property 6 months later of this claim knowing about the crack at which NHBC reported as being minor and no breaches our technical requirements were found.
Brief synopsis of our current situation. 1.5 yrs later we noticed that the initial reported crack on garage wall is now measuing 7mm gap, tracks not only along the morter line but also is breaking bricks and affect 3 out of four walls and to the untrained eye garage seems to be slipping or twisting off of damp membrane on one corner by as much as 15mm.
Cracks are now appearing on our exterior of the rear elevation of the house, which is connected to the garage on all 3 levels and these cracks are also mirrored on the internal walls, staircase is moving and ceilings are cracking. The site has had Redrow/NHBC visits and inspection pits were dug to look at the foundations one year ago and monitoring strips were sited on house and garage.
We fear that NHBC and Redrow are using delay tactics and are not taking seriously our concerns that the house and garage may be subsiding. Our house is an end of a terrace of 5 town houses and the inital surveyor said that because the house seems to have been built on a floating/raft foundation should it be suspected that it is subsiding all of the block will need to be demolished! Wether that is true or not who knows but obviously we want resolution asap of the unsightly cracks and for our fears to be either confirmed or laid to rest once and for all.
Many thanks in advance of any advice you can give me.
Kind regards
