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Thanks for the quick reply!
The ceiling in the kitchen is cracked but that's unrelated. The areas where work has been done are all fine - we followed up with the surveyor on the phone too and he said he wasn't worried about the quality of the work.My concern is around whether this issue might invalidate building insurance in the event of another (unrelated) issue. e.g. plumbing issues. What do you think? Should I ask the insurance company or is that opening a can of worms?
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If all the work was done in the early 80s then I really wouldn’t be worrying about it personally, if it was going to fall down it would have done by now!
I wouldn’t bother with indemnity policy as I’m sure you are outside of window of enforcement.
Local building control wouldn’t be much use either as they would need to see beneath everything so you would be digging trial pits to see footings etc. Not fun.
If you are really worried you could get a structural engineer to have a look over it, but again without taking plaster off the walls any report will be limited. Is there any cracking in plaster or anything like that?