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Default Dropped bricks above window

Phil L wrote:


This said, it was shoddy practice for a short while in the 60's to
just build the external soldiers direclty on top of the frame, there
was a housebuilder called calderbank & fairhurst who built several
estates like this, needless to say they went out of buisness.


just read your other post about cracks etc and noticed that the house is 45
years old? not a good sign considering it was mid 60's that these cowboys
were operating...start ****ting bricks if any of the roads on your estate
contain the words 'calder', 'fair', 'hurst' or 'bank', they usually named
the roads after themselves or at least parts of their names were often used.


Even saying that, there were other housebuilders around at the time who
flung up these monstrosities, have a look around at neighbouring houses,
have they had brickwork replaced above the downstairs front window? -
usually in a triangle shape.


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