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Wall cavity ties

Posted by Vijay Hawoldar, on Thu 19 Dec 2013 05:08pm

Hi, We have just had a home buyers survey carried out on a terraced house we're looking at purchasing. The surveyor has told us that it looks like the wall cavity ties are corroded which is not unusual for the type of property. He did point out that he can't really confirm that they have corroded because the house was recently painted, but the neighbours definitely have as there is clear horizontal cracking. Should we pay to have an independent wall cavity tie survey carried out? Is that even a thing? Thanks in advance

Michael Tucker

Fri 27 Dec 2013 01:06pm

Hello Vijay, It's quite common for this to happen vijay. You would be best to put you job onto rated people's site to get a site inspection simply follow the link below. The service is free to you and you will get 3 opinions. ratedpeople.com Regards Michael

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Louis De Courcey

Fri 20 Dec 2013 10:28pm

Hi yes there is a way of carrying out a survey , you could get a surveyor but a cheaper option would be to get a good builder to work out how many ties you have or have not in the wall. Hope that helps

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