Structural Crack Stitching in Marchmont

Why Marchmont keeps us busy

Every working week we are somewhere in Marchmont, often within a short walk of the Meadows and Bruntsfield Links. The building stock here has its own character, and the ground beneath it has its own habits. Knowing both is the difference between a fix that lasts and a repair you have to revisit.

Marchmont's red sandstone tenements are tall, heavy and largely well-founded, but blocked common drains in the back greens cause more underpinning calls than the buildings themselves. Drainage CCTV is almost always step one here.

Structural Crack Stitching done properly

A crack runs from a window head up through three or four courses of stone. You have filled it twice and it has come back twice. Surface fillers do nothing structural. The wall keeps trying to move where it is weakest, the crack reopens, and water finds the cavity. Frost cycles widen the gap from inside.

Stitch the masonry. Stainless helical bars bonded into raked bed joints turn a single fault line into a reinforced zone. The wall behaves as one piece again, and the repointing is colour-matched so the work disappears.

Three things Marchmont owners get from us

• Local context. We know which streets in Marchmont sit on made ground, which ones drain badly, and which ones have a tree problem. The first visit reflects that.
• Engineer-signed work. Every scheme we put in is signed off by a chartered structural engineer before any tools come out of the van.
• Reports your insurer recognises. Cause, scheme, photographs, costs. The format the loss adjusters in this city already know.