I did not realize it is a crack in the wall, but now I do not understand how I missed that.
It must be shifting something awful if it makes that big a crack and tears the glass-fibre reinforcements in the plaster. Did an expert on structural stability to look at the building?
The house itself is on solid rock. The crack is in the garage
When they built it they simply didn’t compress the ground enough before they poured the concrete.
We had an architect and an engineer look at it. It’s not salvageable, but also not a danger. Car doesn’t fit inside anyway.
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Giliell @ 6
I see, a more mundane reason. The coal mine thing just sprang into my mind (I’ve read The Road to Wigan Pier by Orwell, in which he writes about houses tilting and twisting because of the mining tunnels underneath), as the modern history of that corner of Germany has been due to coalfields to a great extent (right?).
Oh yes, we used to be a mining region and what you mention is a huge problem in some parts, but not right here.
It’s kind of a shibboleth here to have a miner or metal worker in your lineage.
Looking for a new appartment, perhaps?
A blue tit peeking into a crack.
Probably, though the crack is not that wide.
Yet.
Fucken garage wasn’t built on solid ground…
I did not realize it is a crack in the wall, but now I do not understand how I missed that.
It must be shifting something awful if it makes that big a crack and tears the glass-fibre reinforcements in the plaster. Did an expert on structural stability to look at the building?
Giliell @ 3
Are there coal mines under the lot?
The house itself is on solid rock. The crack is in the garage
When they built it they simply didn’t compress the ground enough before they poured the concrete.
We had an architect and an engineer look at it. It’s not salvageable, but also not a danger. Car doesn’t fit inside anyway.
Giliell @ 6
I see, a more mundane reason. The coal mine thing just sprang into my mind (I’ve read The Road to Wigan Pier by Orwell, in which he writes about houses tilting and twisting because of the mining tunnels underneath), as the modern history of that corner of Germany has been due to coalfields to a great extent (right?).
Oh yes, we used to be a mining region and what you mention is a huge problem in some parts, but not right here.
It’s kind of a shibboleth here to have a miner or metal worker in your lineage.