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    Nov 9, 2010, 03:42 PM
    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.
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    Nov 9, 2010, 07:51 PM

    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.
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    Nov 9, 2010, 10:33 PM
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    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.
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    Nov 10, 2010, 11:35 AM

    Could be quake damage but your foundation must be moving for this many cracks.
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    Nov 15, 2010, 10:19 AM
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    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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