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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed
The first boat we owned was ferrocement (similar to your house structure). We obviously had her structurally surveyed for fine line cracks but even for an old girl who'd done a lot of sailing (seawater is very corrosive) she was fine. My other half did a lot of research into ferrocement and so he knew what he was looking at. The only reason we sold her on was because we wanted something bigger with less draft (depth in the water). She was as solid as a rock though.
All houses can have structural problems. A lot of older London houses were built with hardly any foundations and suffer from subsidence and a lot of new builds aren't built to last. The last home we owned was a ten year old brick terrace but when four doors down started having problems, engineers found massive building defects. We knew after the first few days of moving in that there was little to no insulation in the internal walls because we could hear our neighbors having a pee  I wouldn't touch a new build with a ten-foot bargepole unless my other half had been around to watch the build.
If you purchased a steel concrete prefab, you would have had a survey to look for structural cracks? |
My Uni house was a brand new prefab town house and, whilst the walls between houses were well sound insulated... the internal walls within our house itself were pretty much made of paper. I remember the first time I realised... I heard the guy in the bedroom next to me cough, a very small cough, but it was as clear as if he was on the other side of the same room. Then realised that if I heard that little cough so clearly, he must DEFINITELY have been able to hear me having sex in my room, so the next time we were drunk I asked him if he had ever heard my pillow talk and he was like. "....
... no...!" whilst turning beetroot. HAHAHA... ahh I do miss Uni.
Also the wall between my dad's flat (where he lived for a couple of years when I was about 20/21) and the flat next door was pretty much non-existant! Two young guys lived there, the bedroom I stayed in when I was there was on the adjoining wall... my dads was on the opposite side at the external wall so he didn't know of this issue... but when I was in bed there I could literally hear WHISPERING in the flat next door. I once stayed there on the 23rd of December, heard one of the guys bring a random girl home, bang her, then all of their whispery dirty talk afterwards, and then he asked what she was doing for new year... and THEN said "Sorry what was your name again?" and I ****ing burst out laughing then heard them both like "What the **** was that??? Hello???"
Turns out I love thin walls...
P.S. How do you make a boat out of cement??? This is nonsense.