Less intrusive than opening the structure
Small devices left on site record level and crack movement without treating investigation itself as the first intervention.
For heritage and historic properties
Find out if it is moving before anyone opens the wall.
Older fabric is easy to damage with a response that would be ordinary on a modern slab. The first question is whether the building is still moving, and which part of it.
The decision
Whether it is still moving, before anything is opened.
Significant buildings collect confident recommendations. Some of them require opening, propping or replacing material that will not go back. That should wait until you know the movement is active and where it is.
How we help
Evidence that does not damage the fabric.
Old fabric and later work are not one building
Stone, timber, masonry and twentieth-century additions move differently. The inspection reads those junctions instead of forcing one explanation onto the whole property.
A clearer brief for the specialists
When conservation advice or engineering is required, they inherit a movement record and a construction context, not only a photograph of a crack.
Monitoring
Where a daily record helps this decision.
A longer record is particularly useful where movement may be seasonal, long-standing, or confused with old distortion that is no longer active. The dashboard shows the period you agree, including rainfall context on crack monitoring.
See the devices and the dashboardWhat we will not do
We do not provide heritage conservation advice, approvals, or structural design. Where the fabric needs that judgement, we help identify it rather than improvise it.