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Hmm. I fear that doesn't look good. I'd suggest you need a structural engineer to look at it. Either pay your own or ask your buildings insurance company.
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It's a cavity wall so the brick wall that you see from the outside is only 10cm thick and pretty much non-structural. You could get an engineer or surveyor to look at it to try and assess whether it has been caused by someone driving into it, or some other cause, but I wouldn't panic. It's the inner wall that holds up the floors.
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Trying to work out what happened - if someone drive into the corner and it moved there might be more cracks around the corner? Or if they hit the wall to the left and the corner effectively didn't move, are there more cracks a car width away to the left?
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what's on the other side of the wall? I don't own my place where I am living at the moment, but I have noticed a patch of damp on the corner of the ceiling in my bedroom, didn't think much of it for a while as it's a basement flat etc, but it wsa getting bigger and fast, so decided to investigate - there is a small crack on the wall outside, probably less than 10cm long and far less noticable that yours.
I would be fairly worried...
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just noticed these on the outside wall of my house. How worried should I be?
The wall backs onto parking spaces and someone may have driven into it.
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