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Subsidence claims: after drought, ground can shrink, swell or even collapse when it rains – causing damage to homes

By Arya Assadi Langroudi, Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, University of East London
A crack appears beside a window after weeks of scorching weather. As much as you might hope the ground beneath your house will recover with the first rain, the effects of a dry summer can continue long after temperatures fall.

The UK is recovering from the hottest summer on record. The drought, however, has not simply disappeared. According to the…The Conversation


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