Every building talks before a surveyor does. The trick is knowing which sentences matter.

Vertical cracks that follow a mortar joint are usually movement the structure has already absorbed. Diagonal cracks that cut through brick, widen towards the top, and appear on both faces of a wall are a different conversation entirely — that is load finding a new path.

We walk every property twice: once in the morning for light, once after rain for water. The second walk finds more.