Been skip diving over the last couple of years. As the locals have been "renovating" their properties and dumping the old four panel doors, I've been nabbing them. Now have a tidy pile in the garage that have been dipped & stripped ready for hanging. Also picked up some reproduction rim latches. Quality isn't as good as the originals, but they look the part.
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Those old doors are way better quality than the crap you buy in B&Q these days, I can't believe people throw them. I wish I hadn't thrown some of my skirting boards away now
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So is that timber up agin the wall.... what is it.. 3x3"? ... supporting the breast bricks? and itself sitting on a couple of bits of scaffold board?
Well the breast is only a brick-and-a-half deep and they did make some effort to support it, perhaps because the purlin is supported on it and they didn't want the roof to sag.
So, some masterly inactivity on your part would seem appropriate.
You really think Im happy to just leave it alone? Yeah feels so great finding all these issues that need solving . Im paranoid every single day the whole house is going to fall down. Im not rich. Why is there this assumption that home owners are rich.
I wish Id bloody known about it. Why didn't the original structural engineer (i had do a full structural survey) do his fackin job in the first place and comment on it. He went in the loft and took bloody photos - conveniently at a different angle as to the photo I put on. That's the prat that wants suing. If Id not realised these couple of years later Id still be none the wiser. Houses. The only thing in this country that you can buy without knowing all the tonne of shit wrong with it and be stuck with it.stuart45
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You normally have up to 6 years to take action against the surveyor.
Tempted to put one in. In hindsight it’s pretty diabolical it got missed. I can’t believe I missed it too.
Latest engineer estimated 5-6k plus vat. Would this be about right or would it be more?
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You could probably get it done cheaper if you shop around. SE calculation and Building Control fees would need to be added to the builder charge.
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Unusual to find a surveyor who actually goes in the loft.
As far as I can see I'd leave it alone. Because someone hopes you'll give them £5k for fixing it doesn't necessarily mean it needs fixing.
A breast a brick-and-a-half deep could just be corbelled, so unless there are issues we can't see from the pics it wouldn't fall down even without the scaffold board.