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  • Nov 9, 2010, 03:42 PM
    dakaka
    My house has cracks in walls and ceiling; one ceiling crack is 1/4" wide.
    The house is on cement slab, about ten years old.
  • Nov 9, 2010, 07:51 PM
    ballengerb1

    How long have the cracks been there? Come all at once or one here and one there over years? What town do you live in? I have tons more questions to help pin this down but we must start slow to help guide me in the right direction.
  • Nov 9, 2010, 10:33 PM
    dakaka
    Comment on ballengerb1's post
    It is a rental, don't see it day to day. The renter mentioned it two years ago, got worst in the past year. In Northern CA. The house is two story. Had a General contractor look at it. He asked for a structural engineer to look at it.
  • Nov 10, 2010, 11:35 AM
    ballengerb1

    Could be quake damage but your foundation must be moving for this many cracks.
  • Nov 15, 2010, 10:19 AM
    dakaka
    Comment on ballengerb1's post
    I am in N. CA, which quake zone, but nothing apparent. Is there something like a thermal imaging device to see cracks in the foundations or pockets in the slab?

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