help. is this vertical cracking serious?
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The corner crack is typical of brick expansion on long walls which don't have a movement joint. It won't get any worse now, and nothing to worry about.
ridds1313, Hi
As Tony has posted looks like an expansion problem.
In general terms there should be a correctly formed expansion joint every so often, about 6 meters or so, get this dimension wrong and well cracks form elsewhere.
In effect if there is no expansion joint @ about 6.M then the wall without the expansion will actually cause a crack in the wall that is at right angles to the original wall without the expansion gap.
Hope this makes some sense?
As Tony has posted looks like an expansion problem.
In general terms there should be a correctly formed expansion joint every so often, about 6 meters or so, get this dimension wrong and well cracks form elsewhere.
In effect if there is no expansion joint @ about 6.M then the wall without the expansion will actually cause a crack in the wall that is at right angles to the original wall without the expansion gap.
Hope this makes some sense?
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