How quickly does a house settle? (cracks in the corners of a masonry house (siporex))
Hello!
I'm in the process of building a house made of lightweight concrete, which will later be plastered. The house was built about 6 months ago, and the roof trusses were added shortly thereafter. The roof was completed in December. It's a 1.5-story house.
We have now discovered that in three of the outermost corners, you can see thin cracks in the lightweight concrete. And I'm a bit curious as to why, of course, as far as I know, there's not many different ways to build a corner so to speak. Is this common?
How quickly does a house settle? Can you notice/discover "faults" after several years?
Ibra
I'm in the process of building a house made of lightweight concrete, which will later be plastered. The house was built about 6 months ago, and the roof trusses were added shortly thereafter. The roof was completed in December. It's a 1.5-story house.
We have now discovered that in three of the outermost corners, you can see thin cracks in the lightweight concrete. And I'm a bit curious as to why, of course, as far as I know, there's not many different ways to build a corner so to speak. Is this common?
How quickly does a house settle? Can you notice/discover "faults" after several years?
Ibra
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I have no experience with lättbetong, but houses settle during construction, then they shouldn't settle anymore.
Cracks appear in almost all houses during the first year.
Cracks appear in almost all houses during the first year.