Hi all,
I know it’s extremely hard to tell just from a description and I will upload photos once I get home but hoping someone can help me out.
I am currently having a rear single story pitched roof extension and knock through done.
I am opening up the rear dining room into the new extension to have an open plan kitchen dinner.
After the builder has installed the steel RSJ (5 meters long) into the external wall with 500m concrete pad stones 2 cracks in the room above have appeared. One is above the door and is approx 300mm from the top of the doorframe to the ceiling and the other is where the internal wall meets the external wall and runs top to bottom. Both cracks are approx 1mm wide.
The builder has told me that this is just settlement after the acro’s have been removed and there is nothing to worry about, however as this is my sons room I am concerned it may be dangerous.
Should I expect some sort of settling in the rooms above the RSJ?
Thanks
Mark
I know it’s extremely hard to tell just from a description and I will upload photos once I get home but hoping someone can help me out.
I am currently having a rear single story pitched roof extension and knock through done.
I am opening up the rear dining room into the new extension to have an open plan kitchen dinner.
After the builder has installed the steel RSJ (5 meters long) into the external wall with 500m concrete pad stones 2 cracks in the room above have appeared. One is above the door and is approx 300mm from the top of the doorframe to the ceiling and the other is where the internal wall meets the external wall and runs top to bottom. Both cracks are approx 1mm wide.
The builder has told me that this is just settlement after the acro’s have been removed and there is nothing to worry about, however as this is my sons room I am concerned it may be dangerous.
Should I expect some sort of settling in the rooms above the RSJ?
Thanks
Mark