We r buying house seek advice

we r buying house during building inspection he found crakes on the wall around 5-6 2m to 3m we don’t know what to do now. We should continue to buy or not to buy

 

Cracks alone are not a reason to reject a purchase.
Does the price reflect the condition?

 

not yet ,so we should negotiate with them

 

@Raman sidhu

It all depends on your risk appetite-if you want to avoid it or accept these cracks are acceptable for you and you can use them to negotiate the price.

Furthermore, if this house is ticking all other boxes then at the time of putting down deposit-you can put conditions associated with pre purchase building inspection report to mitigate your risk of loosing deposit funds.

Above all is my opinion not advice.

Good luck

 

The building inspector should be able to identify the likely cause of the cracking; and the rectification works required/costs.

 

Have the agents not factored in the condition of the property. Most of us do that so there is no room for negotiation.

We’ve had people try to negotiate on our contracts due to conditions that were already factored into the price to begin with and then got extremely upset for losing the property to another person

 

I would really be surprised If the agent did not notice the cracks and have not factored them already into their asking price

 

I wonder why the vendor didn't choose to render the house before selling though? Too tight on money?

 

Not knowing where these cracks have occurred it is difficult to diagnose the cause (as it appears to be near the end of a wall or corner it could be expansion from 2 directions requiring an expansion joint/do nothing or the building has been hit by a great force pushing the corners of the building in different directions).

Refer to a building inspector and/or engineer.

@bob shovel @Brian84 @Tools

 

100% agreed. Needs a professional report.

 

I would be asking the BI the source/cause of the cracks?

 

Usually plumbers or builders but in this case it's brickies. @TerryN

 

Looks movement related . Remember in a brick veneer house the bricks are there to look pretty and are not structural , the frame underneath is

 

G/day SNM,In reply to your query mate I'm in the same boat as everyone else here,as you said,it could be a few things including (as you mentioned) a lack of properly postioned expansion joints,footing shifting about because of soil type drying out,etc.I suppose because of the vertical cracking (as opposed to diagonally) it strongly suggests a footing failure but as I said,who knows from a picture.On another note I hope all is well with you and you travelling well on the run into the Christmas break.All good here now we are back home and finished the Coffs Harbour project (one rented out just before we finished it and the other one has just been signed up,so that is good)All the best.Terry.