Cracks in Internal Walls, wonky doors and floors

[catsmeow]

We've recently bought a Victorian era property - end terrace built around 1900

There are some fine cracks on a lot of the internal walls but more significantly some cracks that start near door corners and others in the corners of rooms that cut through cornices.

We're worried that there are structural problems with the property although the only thing in the Surveyor report suggested evidence of subsidence at some point in the past, as common in properties of this age.

Can anyone give suggestions as to how to get rid of these cracks or what may be causing them?

The door frames in the house look a bit wonky and there is a gap between the floorboard and skirting board in one room upstairs of about 2 inches.
This probably needs to go on another post but any advice would be useful!

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Thanks
Joe

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[Static]

Well chances are its subsidence.. and you underpin the property..
Best to monitor the cracks for a year or so and ensure the movement has stopped completely.. or ascertain if the movement is seasonal etc..
If the movement hasnt stopped then any repairs you make will only reopen in time..

 

[^woody^]

Most of them look like some natural historic movement in all the usual places where movement shows up.

The one larger crack to the corner cornice looks really old too

If there was subsidence there, then I would expect significant external cracking, not just internal and not just on internal partition walls and ceilings/cornices and not just fine cracks either.

But it's a bit late to be worrying after you have purchased and after a surveyors report

Fine cracks to walls, ceilings and around door frames built off timber floors can be caused by different heating patterns and humidity levels which a new occupier causes.

You can either monitor them, or get that surveyor back for a proper look

And repair to plaster will need some mesh in the plaster or it will crack again