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  • Sounds muddy.

  • Usually done under insurance too I would have thought. What’s the context?

  • Think of the tools you could buy

  • Usually done under insurance too I would have thought. What’s the context?

    One of the garages I'm looking at buying has clearly settled in one corner, at some point.

    The seller says it happened 80 years ago and hasn't moved since - indeed, he didn't think to mention it, it being so minor an issue.

  • DIY it I reckon. How hard could it be?

    Two pairs of garage doors I reckon.

  • This puts the doors into jeopardy, I'm afraid.

  • Behold.


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  • Think of the tools you could buy

    A shovel?

  • I have asked the question, but I suspect that there is no current building insurance for the garage.

  • Seller says the freeholder has buildings insurance that covers the garages

  • This is relatively normality from my sample size of 2.

  • It being a garage, could it just be damaged from being driven into at some point?

  • That's definitely possible. I wonder if an engineer would be able to tell me?

  • I worked as a labourer doing some underpinning on a large barn conversion ~20 years ago. It wasn't as involved as you might think... dig some channels underneath the wall (with a small digger), fill with concrete, repeat.

    Start with a survey to work out what's gone/going wrong? They do say that if it's no longer moving then there's no longer a problem!

    I would guess the original foundation design was inadequate? Or do you have soil/slope/tree issues?

  • Be aware they might need to have a trial pit dug so that they can inspect the foundation, and the ground under it.

  • Underpinning is not cheap and that movement looks historic. Not worth it for an old brick garage; make good locally and carry on. After negotiating a discount on the price, obviously.

  • Just helifix it? It's a garage, not a 4 bed detached house.

  • It's a garage

    This.

    Just slap a bit of cement on the hole and paint it.

  • Although underpinning would be a pretty easy DIY (though not to any level that an insurer might approve of).

    Dig down, lever up, fill with ballast and concrete.

  • Sort out party wall agreements with adjoining owners and anyone within 6m, dig down minimum 1.0m depth (maybe more depending on ground condition ands roots) in one bay, definitely dont lever up, fill with ballast and concrete, leave for 24hrs, dry pack to U/S of existing footing, repeat in 1m bays in a hit-and-miss sequence for the full perimeter

  • I wouldn't want to DIY an excavation like that and would certainly not want to work in it. Just pay someone to design the solution and someone else to do the work. Might be expensive but should be factored in to the purchase price.

  • The seller is not going to accept a (?)£5k price chip on a garage that, IIRC, was being sold for £10k and produces £1k of rent pa. You’d just hang on to it.

  • I'd just shove a load of mortor in the gaps, paint over it with masonary paint and forget about it.

  • You must be new here

    I am looking forward to the project thread and discussion on the correct period sympathetic brick choice with the maximum strength to weight ratio.

    Is there a building term equivalent for restomod?

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