Viktoria

Thanks everyone for all the advice, you've been great. I really wanted this house but with all the risk I think we'll just have to walk away and look for something else.

Thank you both for your help, I really appreciate it

Thank you for all the advice, you've been so helpful!

I know, it's outrageous. And the property agent just says I can get a survey but then I'm taking all the risk to potentially prove them wrong but still be unable to mortgage it.

Hi Spinny, thanks a lot for your input! Unfortunately the seller's reply was that there's nothing wrong with the house. His grandmother lived in it for 30 years and he claims he's not aware of any issues with the front. The rendered chimney is also a concern, some of the render has fallen off on the other side. There are a lot of similar bungalows with arches in the area and the more I look the more I think it's a weakness of the design. A lot of them have cracks above the arch repaired and some even have visible lintels added or squared entries.

It's a bungalow and the arch is above a porch like entry. It's a single skin wall of some sort of concrete blocks

Hi Bonner. Thank you for your reply. My partner took the photos, it's definitely the same crack, the upper half of it. The main concern is that if the house has structural issues, whether the bank will even be willing to port our mortgage, so we're weighing up whether it's even worth paying for a very expensive structural survey

Hi. I wonder if anyone could help with some advice. I was looking at a house to buy that has a big crack above an arched entry porch. This crack is visible from the inside too. How serious is the problem? How could it be repaired and what would be the rough cost of this? Any advice would be much appreciated!