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Logs installed to prop up cracking shikumen houses
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DOZENS of households living inside a nearly-century-old shikumen, or the stone-gate house, complex near downtown Huangpi Road, in Huangpu District, are affected after wide cracks and gaps continued to appear on their house walls and floors over the past couple of months.
Authorities have placed a dozen logs against exterior walls of the buildings in effort to consolidate the structures and prevent the cracks from widening.
"This is my home..a 14-square-meter old flat on (the crossing) of Huangpi Road S and Yongnian Road. Crack as wide as 1 to 2 centimeters have appeared on the walls. Wind blew and dusts fell through it. Experts have come, measured and took photos four, five times but still, there's no reply. We need help," a resident wrote on his personal Weibo account in late January with photos of the cracks between two neighboring walls posted.
Residents said the cracking appeared around the end of last year after two construction projects operated by different real-estate companies, started only across the street of their home complex. Residents suspected that improper construction of the projects had led to the cracks on the aged houses which were built in the 1920s, according to Xinmin Evening News.
The district authority said they would work out a solution to consolidate the buildings after thorough monitoring.
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