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Cracks? Should we be worried?
callmechar
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Can anyone please help me please.
Today we were taking down the wallpaper in the spare room. Our house is a 1960s ex council house. We are end terrace.
The walls are made of bricks and breeze blocks. We noticed on the interior wall of the spare room (which is on the corner of the house eg end of the terrace) that there was a large crack running down the corner of the wall. It is about 4mm wide. The crack is in the plaster and one of the breeze blocks.
When the house was built the interior row of breeze blocks along the side of the house (side wall of the spare room) do not go all the way to the adjacent wall on the front of the house. The gap between the 90 degree angle of the corner wall and the front wall has some gaps in and they only used breeze blocks to the meet the side and front walls on every other row, they filled in the gap with hard wall. Please see photos.
We knocked away some of the plaster to see if it was anything. There is a crack in one of the breeze blocks.
Could this be anything serious?
Today we were taking down the wallpaper in the spare room. Our house is a 1960s ex council house. We are end terrace.
The walls are made of bricks and breeze blocks. We noticed on the interior wall of the spare room (which is on the corner of the house eg end of the terrace) that there was a large crack running down the corner of the wall. It is about 4mm wide. The crack is in the plaster and one of the breeze blocks.
When the house was built the interior row of breeze blocks along the side of the house (side wall of the spare room) do not go all the way to the adjacent wall on the front of the house. The gap between the 90 degree angle of the corner wall and the front wall has some gaps in and they only used breeze blocks to the meet the side and front walls on every other row, they filled in the gap with hard wall. Please see photos.
We knocked away some of the plaster to see if it was anything. There is a crack in one of the breeze blocks.
Could this be anything serious?
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Hard to tell, could be historical settlement if the build was a bit iffy. So long as the exterior wall isn't also cracked I wouldn't be too concerned.0
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Anyone else?0
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Our old house was like that (1920's semi) on all of our external corners upstairs (not sure about downstairs as it was always wallpapered when we lived there. When we bought the house it came up in the survey but wasn't a structural problem, it was due to settlement and age, the same was said when we sold the house.
Of course every experience will be different, so if you are worried you could get someone in to have a look.0 -
Presumably the wallpaper was undamaged so hopefully this is old movement. Fill the gaps and monitor them for further movement.0
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Norman_Castle wrote: »Presumably the wallpaper was undamaged so hopefully this is old movement. Fill the gaps and monitor them for further movement.
Top advice, movement has happened, but it could have been 50 odd years ago and now totally settled,
;) I like the thanks button, but ,please, an I agree button.
Will the grammar and spelling police respect I do make grammatical errors, and have carp spelling, no need to remind me.;)
Always expect the unexpected:eek:and then you won't be dissapointed0
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