RENOVATING A HOUSE WITH WALL CRACKS ?

RENOVATING A HOUSE WITH WALL CRACKS?

It’s really important to find the actual cause of the cracks, so that any repairs will last and cracks don’t re-appear again and again.

That’s why the owner of this Carindale house called Forensic Engineers to prepare an expert Structural Engineer Report.

He was renovating, but found that patched wall cracks kept opening up, again and again.

Our expert investigation found old and recent subsidence & cracks and footing settlements as as well as footing rotation (leaning).

We also identified that there was a serious problem with the foundations.

The house was built on an old gully that had been filled in and the landfill was subsiding bit-by-bit, year-after-year and this was causing the house cracks.

We recommended that stabilizing the footings and permanent wall crack repair would require underpinning of most of the house footings with conventional underpinning.

Home renovations are expensive.

If you are a home owner and have worrying wall or ceiling cracks, and you think maybe there may be subsidence, it’s really important to get an expert independent Engineer Subsidence Report from the get-go.