Cracks in Residential Buildings: A Visual Guide to Structural Movement and Common Defects is a practical, easy-to-use reference written for homeowners, buyers, landlords, and property professionals.

Based on real residential inspections, the book explains why cracks occur, how they are assessed in practice, and how to distinguish between minor cosmetic defects and signs of structural movement. It focuses on traditional brick and timber construction, where uncertainty and misunderstanding are most common.

Clear photographs, concise explanations, repair guidance, and a simple decision guide allow readers to find answers quickly without wading through technical theory.

Written by Tomasz Sikorski, Principal Property Surveyor and Registered Valuer at SurveyAll, this book is an essential reference for anyone involved in buying, managing, or assessing residential property.

Available on Amazon UK soon.

This short episode highlights how surveyors can lead the way towards a more transparent and reliable property market. It showcases SurveyAll’s proactive approach with its Pre-sale service, a comprehensive, digital system that prepares properties for sale before they even reach the market. Through clear, verified documentation and professional condition checks, sellers can avoid last-minute complications, while buyers gain the confidence of knowing exactly what they’re purchasing. This process reduces fall-throughs, builds trust, and creates a more efficient, honest housing market for everyone involved. SurveyAll Ready represents preparedness, transparency, and progress, the modern way to sell property.

In this episode of we explore one of the most common but often misunderstood issues in London housing, the effect of shrink–swell clay soils on Victorian terraces.

Through the example of a typical two-storey mid-terrace, we explain how much such a house really weighs, whether clay can “lift” a building, and where the real danger lies. We discuss seasonal shrinkage, tree roots, shallow foundations, and why one house may crack while its neighbour remains unaffected.

With clear analogies and references to scientific guidance, this episode demystifies the phenomenon of clay movement and makes sense of what surveyors see on the ground, movements measured in millimetres but with consequences felt in everyday living.