Ms Josephine Murphy:

Part of the core testing involves taking two samples under the damp-proof course. At a meeting last week one homeowner told us that his blocks were so bad that they came up just like slurry. That is how he described them. That frightened the life out of him. If he wants to fix his foundations, the engineers need the house to be knocked and the rubble to be disposed of. Then they will go in and check his foundations, but he has to pay for that.