Hello!

We have bought an apartment in a concrete lamella building from 1949 with some renovation needs.

We found a crack in the wallpaper. After peeling it off, it turned out to be a crack in the underlying concrete wall. I'm trying to understand what I'm seeing and wondering if it might be due to insufficient reinforcement overlap causing the crack.

A long crack in a concrete wall with peeling wallpaper, possibly due to improper reinforcement overlap, in need of repair.
A crack in a concrete wall with exposed rebar, possibly due to insufficient overlap, showing damage under wallpaper. A measuring tape extends into a crack in a concrete wall, highlighting surface damage from wallpaper removal in a 1949 apartment.

When tapping, you notice that a larger area is affected.



The question is how to best solve this? Can it be fixed well with the right filler and then fiberglass reinforcement mesh? What type of filler? Cement-based? Epoxy-based? Other?

Thanks for all the help!
 
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Some form of cement-based compound like Husfix or a gypsum-based variant like Ardex 828 is what I have used on similar cracks with good results.
 
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