RENO FILES SUBSIDENCE

Movement and cracks in buildings can set alarm bells ringing, but what causes them and how can they be fixed?

Few things are as disconcerting as discovering large cracks suddenly appearing in your property. When cracking is first noticed, homeowners often worry that it’s a symptom of subsidence, perhaps picturing horror stories of giant sinkholes consuming entire buildings. But in most cases there’s no reason for fresh chinks in your plasterwork or fissures in the brickwork to be interpreted as harbingers of doom. The fact is, subsidence is only one of multiple possible causes of movement in buildings and in the vast majority of properties the blame can be laid at the door of less sinister forces. WHAT IS SUBSIDENCE? Subsidence is defined as the downward movement of the ground under a building, unconnected to the weight of the structure sitting on it. In other words the ground moves regardless…

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Homebuilding & Renovating (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2024

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