Hello, looking at purchasing a house (pre existing built year 2000)
Are these wall cracks serious? more concerned with the one with the red box, looks like the wall has sunk.
Any thoughts appreciated. Building inspector said to just monitor them
The walls in the picture are the side of the house
I had a friend who built a new house and it had a ton of issues before handing over the keys. Make sure to document them all, have it in writting that they will be resolved prior to you signing/paying for the final part of the contract. He needed to be constantly on the site manager to get them done.
If you are past that point, I'd arrange for your own inspector to provide their assessment. They can probably point you in the right direction to have it resolved.
is this a 'New house' as in newly built? or new to you?
Got any higher resolution images than that?
Can you provide context as to what we're looking at in the first picture?
existing house, the first picture is a bedroom wall i believe, to the left is the blinds
Looks like cracks in the rendering. Rendering looks good when new, they are awful when they get dirty and start cracking like what you see.
Your building inspector is right. The one at the top of the window if it starts widening you have a serious problem.
Ones running across bottom of the wall is probably cause by the plastic membrane they put down between the bricks to avoid moisture going up the walls and into your house. You can think bottom is more moist than the top and the top part is probably dried out therefore an expansion crack only.
When was the house built??
2000
confusing down votes
Title makes us think house is new, as in only just finished and you are the first occupants.
What material is it?
When brick, usually see diagonal cracks from the steel lintels corroding and expanding due to rust.
Vertical might be a worry.
brick underneath, crack all vertical so i think has sunk
Sunk might not be the best word. Makes me worried about the foundations.
Chance there isn't a lintel. Solution would likely be to jack brickwork up, install lintel and replace bricks, repoint/remove jack, re-render. There is the chance they used half bricks which is why the crack is vertical.
*not a builder.
Donald
TrHump… asking about walls… this thread is a crackup.