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  • May 1, 2016, 08:11 AM
    Minor-Fifth
    Crack on other side of concrete wall after hammer drilling.
    I recently drilled 6mm pilot holes for anchors in a 6in interior concrete wall with a thin plaster coating in my apartment. After drilling and a day or so later, I noticed a 5 ft long vertical crack on the OTHER side of the wall from which I was drilling. I noticed it from a bulge in the plaster. How serious is this?

    https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4...Us3bzZaUGFHZmc

    https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4...Us3bzZaUGFHZmc
  • May 2, 2016, 04:51 AM
    hkstroud
    That jut looks like crack in the plaster to me. A settlement crack that has been repaired before. Probably there before you drilled for the anchors you just didn't notice it.
  • May 2, 2016, 07:45 PM
    ballengerb1
    An interior wall in an apartment made of concrete? How sure are you that its solid concrete and not block? If its not a load bearing wall no big worries.
  • May 2, 2016, 07:58 PM
    smoothy
    If its Europe... its actually a type of rough unglazed terracotta brick or block that's got a sand loaded plaster (almost like a real stucco that's cement based).

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