Roof things
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♥Jan. 12th, 2015 // 03:27 pm♥
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When we had the survey done on this house, the chap noted that there was Something Going On with the extension: our bedroom floor is noticeably bowed, which he hypothesised was because there's a brick wall between the bedroom and the bathroom / my dressing room, which isn't supported by anything underneath it. We had a structural engineer in, and he said it was actually that the roof beams didn't go all the way to the wall, so the weight of the roof was resting on the unsupported wall, which was causing the floor to bow.
Today, we finally got around to having a roofer look at it. He poked around in the loft for a bit then came down and said, in the nicest possible way, "there nothing wrong with those beams, the structural engineer was talking rubbish", and thought that the best explanation for the floor was the unsupported wall but that it was all a bit odd and might just be that the extension was a bit cowboy-ish. And he thinks that the cracks in the walls up there are because of the old subsidence from when the extension was built.
Which is all a bit odd. Options appear to be to get another structural engineer in ("Which company did you use? Just one bloke on his own. Well, that might be the problem....") or just decorate and see whether any new cracks appear. Hmm.
And, while he was here, he had a look at the back store room, which has a slightly leaky roof: he recommends taking the tiles off and putting a flat rook in, as the pitch is too low for the current setup, and wants to shorten the unused chimney that's out there as well. Not urgent enough to be a winter job, though, so we'll think about it. |
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