My day

[freddie*rooster]

After several hours during the week clearing and cleaning up a messy garden my day started like this

[debra9275]

thanks Az, it's the last room we did, but we never really finished it properly

[twinkles**stars]

Reviews are generally of a negative nature in my experience. Few tend to leave positive feedback.

Are any neighbours having any similar issues? 

[j*oono]

I find the opposite.  Most reviews are pretty darn good because they are false reviews.

I think the problem was caused by their earthworks but I can't prove it and neither am I going to try.  I will just eventually have to get the whole house patched up and repainted.  

Because we have clay soil in the area they don't like to build on that because it can crack, so instead they built the pad up really high on a sand base but I don't think they compacted it and let it all settle properly.  It's settling with a house sitting on top of it.  The garden is terraced now whereas before it was just a flat block.

[cherry*135]

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@bluecat*dancing wrote:

We could round up a frying pan wielding CS posse to sort out these dodgy builders.

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Ha, I had that thought also

[bushies.girl]

Joono That is heartbreaking, will your household insurance cover it ? I can only speak for my own area, where the earth often moves and cracks due to long periods of hot, dry weather and my walls don't look like that at all. I have also been inside quite a few older houses in my town and have never seen that kind of damage on the walls.

[bushies.girl]

Joono is your house built on a slab or stumps?

[j*oono]

I'm not sure how insurance could cover it Bushies.  I am quite certain that the damage is purely cosmetic and not structural. 

We demolished a 120 yr old weatherboard to build this place (and I cried).  I loved that house so much.

Edit to say it was built on a slab.

[bushies.girl]

I was just being optimistic re insurance Joono. I would thought that a house built on stumps would be more susceptible to movement/cracking rather than one built on a slab. Old houses can come with their own set of probs, ours had not been very well maintained, so it's needs a bit of work. We knew this when we bought it, so there have been no great surprises to deal with, apart from the shoddy work re the bathroom slab.

[twinkles**stars]

Your insurance company (building not contents) should be informed. They will most likely have a  independent inspection done and go from there. If found to be related to a building fault they will advise you what to do or act on your behalf.

When part of my new roof blew off my insurer had   an independent report done. 10 pages. When found to be an error on the part of the roof tiler they gave me free of charge the full report to send to the builder.  I did not lose my no claim bonus. Also offered to act on my  behalf should the builder not be helpful.

[j*oono]

Good information Twinkles but I most likely won't.  It will just be patched.