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by hendon1
Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:31 pm
Forum: Plastering and Dry Lining Forum
Topic: Cracks in plaster and breeze blocks
Replies: 7
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Thanks for that. I've checked the outside walls and they look completely true and straight. What gives me comfort is that the three rooms in the house that have been decorated have no cracks, so filliing and making good seems to have worked (believe it or not most rooms in this 1985 house that I've ...
by hendon1
Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:00 pm
Forum: Plastering and Dry Lining Forum
Topic: Cracks in plaster and breeze blocks
Replies: 7
Views: 39090

Thank you Mr Dude. I've since got in a second builder over the weekend who is all doom and gloom - he said that the breeze block cracking worried him and that if it was just shrinkage only the plaster would have cracked. The surveyor stands by his word and said that breeze blocks aren't that strong ...
by hendon1
Thu Dec 06, 2007 5:15 pm
Forum: Plastering and Dry Lining Forum
Topic: Cracks in plaster and breeze blocks
Replies: 7
Views: 39090

Cracks in plaster and breeze blocks

I've bought a 1985 built house that has vertical cracks in the corners of most rooms, at the junction where each wall meets another, the cracks running from the top to the bottom. The cracks are anything up to 5mm. The surveyor put this down to "differential movement" where different mater...
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