Refurbishment update..slow and steady
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last yearNoticed these large cracks, when they drilled the joists to insert the plastic heating pipes.
I did raise it with the builder, who promised to look into them and sister them
when needed. Yet to hear from him
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last yearThey did find cracks in the sunroom wall. Which was uncovered after the decorating wall was taken down. Don't want to be mean but if they cracked d those joists
with bad drilling, why not these cracks with the same?
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