John Laird wrote:

Did you buy this house without a mortgage, out of interest ?

No, we have a mortgage.

I can't
imagine any lender approving a loan without further investigation (nor the
valuer missing a large bulge).

Don't know whether they missed it or just didn't care, but it
seemed to make no difference to the lender.


Fwiw, the bulge in the outer wall of my
house was of the order of an inch, over about 10' in height. I was informed
that renewing the wall ties was a practical solution up to an inch or so.
Beyond that, it was rebuilding time. Not in itself a huge job as the outer
leaf is non-structural, but as it was above a large conservatory, not
trivial either.

This is a slightly different situation, because there's no
inner/outer leaf - it's just one thick, solid wall.

--
Grunff