berbie38 said:
bigsegs said:
1st time ive ever heard of cracks being caused by damp.. ???
internally at least anyway..
just a guess realy,there was damp in one corner of the room but the crack goes all the way along. any idea what it could be??
movement.
newish house, settlement, gone up in a month...
to be expected these days imo..
no big deal tho, id prolly just acrylic decor (painters mate, caulk, whatever) the ceiling crack twice (the stuff shrinks, go over it once, let it dry then do it again, the stuffs flexible anyhoo)..
as for the wall, it'll be the join of two boards, scrim it and skim it and like napper says, a run of scrim along the wall edge just touching the ceiling wont hurt at all...
as for 'there was damp in one corner of the room'.. in a ten year old house? bloody hell, newbuilds really are crap these days..
was it black and spotty? in which case its not 'damp' as in water ingress, its condensation.. ventilate the room..
and it it was 'damp' i.e. visible salts, in the top corner, its either gonna be a leaky gutter/downpipe, easy fix, or mortar snots bridging the cavity (not so easy) or possibly a leaky roof (dodgy verge/tiles/felt) in which case i'd expect a water mark..