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Could this be subsidence? Cracks have got worse recently šŸ˜ž
Thanks

It could be, but it's not necessarily; it's difficult to tell from just those photos and no context. Where is it in the house, it looks internal? Are the walls brick? Subsidence usually manifests on bits of the house round the perimeter, especially bits that jut out like bay windows. Ideally need a professional to look at it (and preferably not a builder or anyone else who has a vested interest in it being a problem needing a expensive fix, so a building surveyor or similar).
 
I'm wondering if that's occurring at the point where you pass from the main house into a rear outrigger as is common on UK victorian houses.

Yes me too (I think they're called 'additions'? Although they were built at the same time as the main house). You might see something like that if the whole addition was moving away from the rest of the house - but I'd expect to see cracks on the external walls of the extension too in that case, not just internal. Can't see if those cracks are just surface (plaster) either, or if they go through to brick. If it was me I'd be stripping them back and having a look. And then probably leaving it half-done for several months :)
 
It could be, but it's not necessarily; it's difficult to tell from just those photos and no context. Where is it in the house, it looks internal? Are the walls brick? Subsidence usually manifests on bits of the house round the perimeter, especially bits that jut out like bay windows. Ideally need a professional to look at it (and preferably not a builder or anyone else who has a vested interest in it being a problem needing a expensive fix, so a building surveyor or similar).
Thanks, yes it is internal from landing into bathroom
 
I'm wondering if that's occurring at the point where you pass from the main house into a rear outrigger as is common on UK victorian houses.
Thanks, yes we believe it is
So potentially a badly done/old extension when they put the kitchen and bathroom on?
Thanks!
 
Thanks, yes we believe it is
So potentially a badly done/old extension when they put the kitchen and bathroom on?
Thanks!

Was there a kitchen/bathroom extension added relatively recently?

Making a bunch of possibly wrong assumptions, it looks a bit to me like the crack is appearing in line with the inside of the back wall of the main house (rather than the outside of that wall).

As prunus says I'd be having a look at the outside of the house too, around the junction of extension/main house to see if I could spot any evidence of things going there.
 
Was there a kitchen/bathroom extension added relatively recently?

Making a bunch of possibly wrong assumptions, it looks a bit to me like the crack is appearing in line with the inside of the back wall of the main house (rather than the outside of that wall).

As prunus says I'd be having a look at the outside of the house too, around the junction of extension/main house to see if I could spot any evidence of things going there.
Not recently no
Thanks again
 
Gsv bought too many flowers for the back garden planters so was kind of forced to do the window boxes he'd always wanted to do anyway. The slight problem was that the windows open outwards but then I realised we could always just open the side or upper windows of the bay on the rear occasions we need to open anything.

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It wasn't five years, constantly. It was interwoven with work, mental illness and alcoholism. A guarantee for the smooth running of any project! :D

And covid.
 
It wasn't five years, constantly. It was interwoven with work, mental illness and alcoholism. A guarantee for the smooth running of any project! :D

And covid.
Sounds like my DIY projects.
It does look nice, you must be pleased that it is finished!
 
It wasn't five years, constantly. It was interwoven with work, mental illness and alcoholism. A guarantee for the smooth running of any project! :D

And covid.
I get it. We ā€œfinishedā€ our renovation in 2019 but weā€™ve been living with splintered chipboard floors in the bedroom since then until we finally got round to sourcing floors in December last year. And itā€™s May and the floors are down but we still have all the upstairs furniture downstairs with narrow walkways between stuff like a hoarderā€™s paradise, while I very slowly make my way through painting the upstairs. One day it may be done and Iā€™ll put some photos in this thread but Iā€™m not expecting that to happen imminentlyā€¦
 
I get it. We ā€œfinishedā€ our renovation in 2019 but weā€™ve been living with splintered chipboard floors in the bedroom since then until we finally got round to sourcing floors in December last year. And itā€™s May and the floors are down but we still have all the upstairs furniture downstairs with narrow walkways between stuff like a hoarderā€™s paradise, while I very slowly make my way through painting the upstairs. One day it may be done and Iā€™ll put some photos in this thread but Iā€™m not expecting that to happen imminentlyā€¦
I took only that photo as out of shot was a ton of crap that needed sorting and chucking out.
 
I get it. We ā€œfinishedā€ our renovation in 2019 but weā€™ve been living with splintered chipboard floors in the bedroom since then until we finally got round to sourcing floors in December last year. And itā€™s May and the floors are down but we still have all the upstairs furniture downstairs with narrow walkways between stuff like a hoarderā€™s paradise, while I very slowly make my way through painting the upstairs. One day it may be done and Iā€™ll put some photos in this thread but Iā€™m not expecting that to happen imminentlyā€¦

Do you have colours/brand decided?
 
Do you have colours/brand decided?
Yes! That took many, many weeks and the purchase and painting up of 17 tester pots (no exaggeration) plus about twenty of those sticker testers, but we finally got there. Iā€™ve mostly finished the painting now too. The end is in sight, and by ā€œendā€ Iā€™m not including a bathroom door or any of the carpentry work needed to build a wardrobe, because I expect those to take another five years at least.
 
Yes! That took many, many weeks and the purchase and painting up of 17 tester pots (no exaggeration) plus about twenty of those sticker testers, but we finally got there. Iā€™ve mostly finished the painting now too. The end is in sight, and by ā€œendā€ Iā€™m not including a bathroom door or any of the carpentry work needed to build a wardrobe, because I expect those to take another five years at least.

The choice is overwhelming.

Looking forward to seeing what you've done.
 
Currently ironing on some oak veneer to the edge of some IKEA kallax shelves.
They are nice anyway, with marine ply look edging, only, this is too pale against the solid oak worktop Iā€™m putting on top.
I will then be able to oil the veneer to match the worktop.

Never done this before but seems pretty straightforward.
 
I watched this, more to see how best to trim it but it helped with the actual ironing.
I got one of these trimmers but did the first lot of shelves with a fresh bladed Stanley knife. Will try it out on the shelves Iā€™m doing now
 
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