Sunday 26 June 2022 12:51 PM Retired couple forced to demolish their five-bed home after FIVE YEARS due to ... trends now
A couple will have to demolish their £725,000 dream retirement home in Cambridgeshire just five years after it was built.
The five-bed house owned by Madeline and Alastair Price, aged 70 and 69, is so wonky they can't physically open the front door.
The couple's detached home, which they bought in 2018, is covered with metre-long cracks as swelling soil is 'lifting up' the house.
Insurers have blamed poorly-constructed foundations and ordered the house to be torn down and rebuilt as the damage is too severe to repair.
Madeline, a retired banker turned gardener, said: 'It's a nightmare really.
'The cracks are pretty much everywhere. None of the floors or work surfaces are level.
'Doors won't shut - I can't even open the front door because it's stuck.'
'The insurance company said they can't save it. It's not just a building, it's our home.'
A house in the village of Wicken (pictured), near Ely, that was built only five years ago is to be demolished and rebuilt due to the inadequate foundations
The structural movement of the house has created large cracks all across the property which are too severe to repair
Inside the couple's garage a huge crack stretching several metre can be seen. The cracks have been caused by soil underneath the house swelling up and moving the house's foundations
Madeline said they may just put the house straight on the market after it's been demolished and rebuilt
Situated in the rural village of Wicken, near the historic cathedral city of Ely, the couple's home
