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cracks appearing in walls?

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  • gzdbwl
    gzdbwl Posts: 2 Newbie
    myhooose wrote: »
    Every year I when switch on the cental heating i get cracks in my skimmed hall. I think it must dry it out a little.

    I have also had minor subsidence problems and on the advise of a structural engineer I regret ever calling the insurance company.

    Why do you regret calling the insurance company
  • whirlwind
    whirlwind Posts: 57 Forumite
    gzdbwl wrote: »
    Why do you regret calling the insurance company

    Yes I am interested to know that too.

    :)
  • nelly_2
    nelly_2 Posts: 17,863 Forumite
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    Being officialy the best plasterer on earth I can tell you for absolute certainty that your house is about to fall down.

    Plaster never cracks unless the foundations were made out of quaker oats which is quite common these days.

    McAlpine have tried many types of foundation including balancing a full housing block on four otters, all called Terry, this also failed when the otters got bored and went on a lads holiday to Magaluf

    In other news it has been reported that a rather sensible chap off the intersocks said fill cracks with Gypsum joint filler (B&Q) cos its easy to use and is very flexible...........just like Nadia Comanech
  • clutton_2
    clutton_2 Posts: 11,149 Forumite
    nelly - every now and then you make me roar with laughter !!!!!!!!!!!
  • chuckles1066
    chuckles1066 Posts: 2,670 Forumite
    clutton wrote: »
    nelly - every now and then you make me roar with laughter !!!!!!!!!!!

    but now wasn't one of those moments........

    Does he EVER contribute anything worthwhile or is he just the Board's jester?
    You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take - Wayne Gretzky

    Any advice that you receive from me is worth exactly what you paid for it. Not a penny more or a penny less.
  • nelly_2
    nelly_2 Posts: 17,863 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    clutton wrote: »
    nelly - every now and then you make me roar with laughter !!!!!!!!!!!

    I was being serious!
  • clutton_2
    clutton_2 Posts: 11,149 Forumite
    """chuckles"""" - what has happened to your sense of humour ? life would be the poorer were it not for good humour !

    its even funnier if nelly WAS being serious !!!! (which i doubt)
  • ixwood
    ixwood Posts: 2,550 Forumite
    And he suggested a gypsum filler..
  • gzdbwl
    gzdbwl Posts: 2 Newbie
    gzdbwl wrote: »
    Why do you regret calling the insurance company

    The reason I ask is that I am getting hair cracks around my doors, but they are extending across the ceilling, in a line from one end of the house to the other.
  • nelly_2
    nelly_2 Posts: 17,863 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    gzdbwl wrote: »
    The reason I ask is that I am getting hair cracks around my doors, but they are extending across the ceilling, in a line from one end of the house to the other.


    Maybe your house used to be the georgeous assisant of a magician that did the cut the lady in half trick?

    Cracks are only a problem when they become really wide, even then 99% of the time its nowt to worry about.

    Someone on here a year or so ago posted a piccy they took of their house that had a crack that yopu could have driven a ford cortina through without scratching the paint
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