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The wobble factor

Language: English Series: Times ; People & Property 16 September 1998, 10(1)Publication details: 1998Subject(s): Summary: Thousands of Georgian and Victorian end-of-terrace houses throughout Britain are on the brink of collapse or need huge funds to shore them up according to structural engineer, Clive Richardson, who says that end walls are pushed out by regular movements that start in the middle of a terrace causing an irreversible process that he calls the `bookend effect`.

Thousands of Georgian and Victorian end-of-terrace houses throughout Britain are on the brink of collapse or need huge funds to shore them up according to structural engineer, Clive Richardson, who says that end walls are pushed out by regular movements that start in the middle of a terrace causing an irreversible process that he calls the `bookend effect`.