flash wrote:

Hi,
I'm hoping that someone here can help?
I'm thinking of buying a house that I've been told is constructed with a
steel frame (I think they said it was a Hawksley type!). Various people have
tried to put me off, including my current mortgage lender, because they say
there are problems with the design.
I'd appreciate any other points of view on it.
I believe it was built sometime in the Seventies!

There's an estate of them near here, owners can't sell because no one
will lend on them. Problem as I understand it is there is no cheap or
easy method to reliably test the condition of the steel framing so the
lender can't tell the condition of the property.

Peter

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