3 Bed Semi-Detached House, Refurb/BRRR, Macclesfield, SK10 2RH £150,000

Outside -

Gardens - To the front of the property is a small garden area and driveway providing off-road vehicular parking whilst to the rear there is a fully enclosed rear garden.

Structural Issues - As mentioned, it is apparent that there are some structural issues with the property which are confirmed by cracking when viewing the property. These issues have been investigated by a qualified structural engineer whose findings are as follows.

CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS

From the above, we would comment that there were signs of structural movement to the property. This is principally affecting the front left corner but there was also some movement over the rear ground floor windows due to a poor lintel detail. The windows to the property do not generally appear to have lintels over the windows but those to the left side of the front elevation, including the front door area, have steel lintels over them but the remainder do not.

The defective brickwork and cracking over the left hand and right hand rear elevation windows show typical cracking due to the lack of an appropriate lintel. We would
estimate costs in the region of £1500 per window opening to place a suitable stainless steel or galvanised lintel over the windows. With regard to the cracking in the front left corner, it appears as if foundation movement has taken place, as indicated by the diagonal cracking, and the upper part of these cracks is recent in nature. We note that there is a drain close to the front left corner of the property. It may be that leakage of the drain has caused softening of the bearing stratum, and it should be
anticipated that some underpinning will be required in this area. Obviously, we have no knowledge of the depth of the foundations or the depths to an appropriate
bearing stratum, but it should be anticipated that 4m or 5m of underpinning may be required, and of course, the cracks will require crack stitching and repairing internally and externally. We would anticipate costs for this item to be in the region of £10,000 - £15,000. It would be appropriate to do further investigation, if so required, in order to potentially come up with the appropriate structural scheme.