The Problem A large terraced property in the centre of Warwick reported a claim for a void appearing to the rear of the property. The house was tenanted and formed the entrance to a communal courtyard area to the rear and opened onto a busy shopping courtyard to the front. The property is next to a large restaurant and hotel meaning we had to be careful to minimise our activities on stakeholders all around the property. The void was examined in more depth and it appears that the house which was constructed in the 1970’s over the vaulted cellar of the original property. Leaking drainage and fatigue is believed to have caused the brick arch rings to fail and the void which extended the full depth of the property was full of collapsed masonry, causing the ground floor slab to be self suppo

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