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[bigdave60dog]

Originally Posted by Cotham Marble

In many cases where 'right to buy' has been exercised, there is no comprehensive survey undertaken, just a mortgage valuation. In that circumstance there is no surveyor report to fall back on. And it's now not just with 'right to buy' that purchasers are skimping on survey costs, with the Mortgage companies demanding such high deposits, increasing numbers of open market purchases are being made without a full survey.

CM

Thst is absolutely true. They just need to make sure that the house is worth the money that they are lending. However it is my understanding that the surveyor is always accountable for his/her actoins as part of his/her proffessoinal registration, regardless of how thorough the survey may or may not be.
Dave

[animartco]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

My first thought was why would anyone plant a willow tree - they grow easily enough on their own! We have a tree in our garden (distant from the house) which just appeared. I coppice it annually and get a nice collection of twigs!

This apart, I don't think anyone would be tempted to grow a native willow in a garden: sometimes dwarf, weeping willows are planted but not the large species.

Your water table must be higher than ours Paul. Willows might sprout of their own accord down by the river, but not up here. And it was a weeping willow.

[Paul mabbott]

Originally Posted by animartco

Your water table must be higher than ours Paul. Willows might sprout of their own accord down by the river, but not up here. And it was a weeping willow.

We don't have a water-table as such - just little patches where you don't sink into the mire .... I can see that it might be a little different in the sunny S-E!

As I recall, a lot of weeping willows are self-limiting in size ... although that's the overground part, not the roots presumably ....
I suppose then that the only thing to do is to chop the tree down and poison the roots. I wouldn't hurry to repair the structural damage -when the drying properties of the tree are removed the building might return to its original state, more or less.

[animartco]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

We don't have a water-table as such - just little patches where you don't sink into the mire .... I can see that it might be a little different in the sunny S-E!

As I recall, a lot of weeping willows are self-limiting in size ... although that's the overground part, not the roots presumably ....
I suppose then that the only thing to do is to chop the tree down and poison the roots. I wouldn't hurry to repair the structural damage -when the drying properties of the tree are removed the building might return to its original state, more or less.

I thought the instructions, given on many threads now, were never chop down a large tree growing near a house. Pollard it bit by bit, and plant a shrub close by to take the water that it was taking. But of course never PLANT a tree close to a house in the first place.
Around here Paul all the weeping willows are the big ones. Siberian are they?Or Andalucian? Have a place name anyway. A lot were imported and planted around Canterbury. They are capable of hacking into sewers and are quite difficult to kill. If you wanted to keep the tree you could plant a slice of trunk with a branch sticking up from it and it would soon be another tree! But at the bottom of the garden!

[Paul mabbott]

Yes, that was a hard-learned lesson: people complaining about structural damaged caused by tree roots who found out that the reverse damage was even worse when they chopped the trees down!
On some soils you can get away with chopping - depends whether the damage is caused by roots infiltrating the brickwork and piping or whether it is simple subsidence due to draining of normally wet soils. In the latter case the soil just rises back to the original level and no work is needed more than a bit of repointing or plastering. You'd need to know the building history and soil type ....

Originally Posted by animartco

I thought the instructions, given on many threads now, were never chop down a large tree growing near a house. Pollard it bit by bit, and plant a shrub close by to take the water that it was taking. But of course never PLANT a tree close to a house in the first place.
Around here Paul all the weeping willows are the big ones. Siberian are they?Or Andalucian? Have a place name anyway. A lot were imported and planted around Canterbury. They are capable of hacking into sewers and are quite difficult to kill. If you wanted to keep the tree you could plant a slice of trunk with a branch sticking up from it and it would soon be another tree! But at the bottom of the garden!