Home structural repairs

Different failures call for different repairs. A cracked or overloaded lintel over a window is replaced or supplemented with a properly sized beam and padstones. A bowing or bulging wall, often from wall tie corrosion in a cavity or a lack of lateral restraint, is repaired with remedial ties or restraint straps tying the wall back to the floors, and in bad cases partial rebuilding. A sagging floor is diagnosed as joist overloading, decay or undersized members, and repaired by sistering, adding a mid-span beam or replacing the joists.

Foundation movement is the more serious case. Where subsidence is confirmed, the repair may be underpinning to take the foundation down to stable ground, or, where trees are the cause, root management combined with monitoring. We design the underpinning sequence, mass concrete or piled, so the ground beneath is never undermined all at once. Where movement is historic and stable, the right answer can be a monitored repair rather than expensive foundation work, and we say so.

Structural repairs often sit alongside an insurance claim, a house sale or a lender's requirement, so the report has to do more than describe the crack. We set out the cause, the significance of the movement, whether it is active or historic, and a clear repair scheme with calculations, in language an insurer, surveyor, buyer or lender can rely on. Where a homebuyer survey has flagged movement, our report gives the definitive structural view that lets the sale proceed.

The repair calculations are prepared to the Eurocodes, the UK National Annex and Approved Document A, and issued so your builder can carry out the work and Building Control can approve it where it is notifiable. We agree a single fixed fee fixed up front, with any follow-on repair design scoped once the cause is known. We serve homeowners, buyers and managing agents across the UK, with site visits arranged by region.