Posted by Jiohn Nichols on December 10, 2011 at 11:38:18 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: More on the Dogs Home posted by Dave on December 04, 2011 at 06:37:26:
Rob:
The issue of a bowed wall is always an interesting one with a masonry building. Very many masonry buildings have bowed walls, as Heymann from Cambridge noted, this is not a problem unless it is moving. Heymann wrote the definitive text on this subject.
I can make a finite element model of the dog's home in a few hours, but I would need the following information.
At every 250 mm around the base drop a stringline from the eaves and measure the offset to the wall. A measurement every 250 mm vertically would be great. A good way to spend a day in the field with your oldest son, tell him it is like measuring an old boat.
Do the same for the inside and measure the thickness of the walls at the doors and the windows and the eaves.
Try and get some photos to determine if rocks go all the way through.
Once we have an FEM model we can determine the stability and then map out a plan to fix it.
Demolition is always a last resort that one does relucantly. There are more than enough skills in the different groups to avoid that problem.
I suggest you do as for Swallow and start a verbal appeal. Gives you a solid bargaiing point if you have an amount promised. We know these old codgers are good for the money.
JMN