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"Tim S" wrote


Not to make light of your uncle's situation, that *was* 60+years ago when
the British still knew how to do things properly!

Having seen a number of examples of shoddy work on older English
properties (courtesy of Sarah Beeney rather than first hand), I'm not sure
that the rose tinted glasses are so appropriate.
Not just poor-to-zero foundations, but naff brickwork, no tie-in between
perpendicular walls etc etc and all this is in the build of an original
property.

You are of course right - the house I grew up in had a bowing wall due to
lack of tie in to one breeze block wall (load bearing walls were brick and
others were breeze).

But it seems to me that modern building work, whilst to a better standard of
insulation just isn't as *solid* on the whole.

Then the extensions and re-work bring far worse nightmares.

That I agree with - most of the buggerage in my house was done in the 70's.