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035 _a(Sirsi) u26617
041 _aeng
245 _aUnderpin policy countered
260 _c1992
350 _a0
490 _aNew Civil Engineer
_v(979) 30 January 1992, 9(1)
520 _aInsurance companies are paying out hundreds of millions of pounds on totally unnecessary house underpinning according to the BRE. Underpinning is being used to remedy clay subsidence which is trivial in engineering terms and in 75% of cases cracks were purely cosmetic.
690 _aBUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION-REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE
942 _n0
948 _c04/03/1997
999 _c17903
_d17903