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BigWallop
 
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Default Bowing house wall - tie rods?


"Grunff" wrote in message
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Darren Griffin wrote:

It may well be the end of your world if you are in the house when it

comes
down.


I think it has a fair way to move before that happens, and would
be pretty obvious that something bad is about to happen. Houses
very rarely spontaneously self destruct without warning.

--
Grunff


Please say your not sure. All it can take is some ground movement or a
heavy lorry passing the building, to take any precarious structure over the
edge. Do you know that the joist are still properly seated on their
retainers ? Have the joists moved out of their original position and are
now sitting on crumbling mortar.

A low flying jet from RAF Leuchars, brought down a cottage in the wilds of
the Ayrshire country side. So please, if you can see that the movement is
continuing at a pretty even rate over short periods of time, then have it
looked at properly. We'd all miss you.