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It's thermolite blocks with render. I had our original surveyor come out and he looked inside, in the room the other side and the attic, then had a close look at the crack. His view was that it wasn't structural, that raking out, bonding and filling would be fine. There is no damp and no cracks...

Right, thanks.

We definitely want to get it right, but it's difficult when you get people out to identify causes and quote to fix and they then give different solutions. We'll definitely monitor the crack. Thanks

The whole wall or just the crack area? Both plasterers reckoned it felt solid and not blown.

The house is early 60s - our neighbouring houses have same cracks in pretty much same place. The plasterers who came out said the render itself was solid.

we have a long horizontal crack in rendering,(see pic) been there a while. Neighbouring houses have similar and have been told pointless doing much other than filling as always reappear few years later? Had a couple of plasterers out, who said rendering is sound, but then gave differing advice -...