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Random horizontal crack in brick veneer 1

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geopat69

geopat69

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May 25, 2013
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Hi. I have an issue with a single storey timber framed brick veneer home. No structural issues anywhere. However, There is a random horizontal hairline crack mid height of 1 wall..unexplainable!

The wall is about 2.5m high

I doubt its ground movement swelling or subsidence as theres no indicator of this..no zig zag brick crack, no internal plaster cracking and no cracking adjacent to the the brick lintels.

The wall faces west…so i am thinking thermal issue but not sure.

Any ideas..would be welcome
 
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Impact force from sliding the door too hard?

Fixing bolt on the door frame? So any wind would try to bow the frame.

Thermal expansion of the door frame looks like a good shout - I thought it faced east, not west....

I would look very hard at that door frame.

Remember - More details = better answers
Also: If you get a response it's polite to respond to it.
 
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Probably yes.. others ( local settlement due to supporting and fixing detail of external render , door frame ,..) I will suggest you to try to learn if the crack is live or stable ( if crack is closing during night, or widening )..

You may use a small glass ribbon fixing to the both sides of the crack with gypsum mortar or cigarette paper .









Tim was so learned that he could name a
horse in nine languages: so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
(BENJAMIN FRANKLIN )

 
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I think George's suggestion is the most likely culprit.
 
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