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Wall crack - does it look serious?
bromine
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Viewed a house, all good except this crack in a wall. Does it look serious to you (as in, structural issue)?. Of course we'll get a survey done when the time comes but it would be nice to know this forum's opinion.
Background info: old-ish (1950s?) end of terrace house, upstairs hallway wall.
Thanks in advance
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What's on the other side of the wall?Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Mmmm Quite wide………and consistent, I’m just an average joe but I would avoid… (personal opinion) be interesting to see what others think?When chatting to our surveyor he said avoid houses with outside long cracks. Internal not so bad.1
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Doozergirl said:What's on the other side of the wall?It's an external wall, end of terrace so there's nothing on the other side.I didn't see any crack from the outside.0
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Could be just in the plaster, or internal brick/blockwork. Have you got an exterior photo of the external walls?0
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Anything on Streetview? Historical images?Gather ye rosebuds while ye may0
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It's really impossible to tell without a bit more context. It's a significant crack, but if whatever caused it has been fixed/ stopped moving naturally then it's not a problem.0
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bromine said:stuart45 said:Could be just in the plaster, or internal brick/blockwork. Have you got an exterior photo of the external walls?
Don't have a photo but there was no crack visible when I looked from the outside.I looked again just now. Although there isn't a crack matching the one in original post, I noticed a couple of staircase-type cracks as seen in the attached photos. Am I right that these are likely to be related to structural issues?
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Have you asked the owner about the crack? They might have had it looked into already .. whether they tell you or not is another matter!!
The staircase type crack doesn’t look good to me - more so if it’s in same place as internal crack … but I’m not a surveyor!1 -
Looks like there has been some structural movement. which isn't necessarily a big deal. It depends on when, how much and what caused it. See what the owner and surveyor/ struct eng say.1
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