…who do I need to speak to?
We have a Victorian terrace house with two rooms on the ground floor and very narrow stairs that go up between the two rooms (so there are walls on both sides of the stairs). For a while after we moved in, 18 months ago, I noticed small cracks appearing along the top of - I think it’s the stair string? The wood at the sides of the stairs that are attached to the wall? - on one side.
Everyone (including a couple of joiners/handymen) just reassured me that it was plaster settling. But the cracks are getting both longer and wider (a couple of mm in places), small chunks of plaster are falling out both next to the stairs and (I think) underneath them, and cracks have started appearing on the other side too.
Do we need to pay for a structural engineer to come out and assess it, or would a reliable joiner be enough? (Not that I’ve had much luck finding one of them, but... )
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I think our stairs are falling off the wall...
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BabCNesbitt · 13/03/2018 20:27
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