Why Has Your Wall Cracked? and What Can You Do?

From a retired builder ( Last 30 years in France) of over 60 years...good advise, nicely explained, well done..

Never thought I'd have a crack problem, but here I am, watching this video.

37 year old house with a few small cracks internally. 3 years ago got some painting done to repair water damage from a broken loft header tank. Got the painter to plaster in the cracks. No more movement since.

I might get a crack at it, thanks to this video 💪🏻

I wish I had seen such a thorough explanation of building cracks many years ago.Big thanks.👍

I work on site as an installation plumber and the amount of cracks I see is alarming. Put's me off my breakfast most days :)

I said I was going to answer before watching I didn't think you was going into this depth Roger.

Brilliant! I’d suspected that this might be the case with my 1916 built house. We’re on clay soil, and certainly over the past couple of summer/winter cycles, it’s definitely moved. I’ll now just fill the crack with a lime mortar to stop water ingress! Thanks for the very informative video.

Roger cracks me up 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light" Delusions 1-3.

good practical advice Roger. I complained to my father about something in my house's construction and he rightly pointed out it has already lasted 100 years that way

I dunno about the rest of you but these videos have been so informative. I've learnt so much from them - thank you! Currently have a Crack on my internal breeze block of my outhouse...

Regarding the old wall restraints, my old man told me he saw it done just after the war they put the rods through with the X on the end against the outside wall then heated the bar so it expanded then tighten up the end and as the rod contracted it would pull the wall in repeat as necessary until the wall was where you want

I can imagine Roger has been sent a lot of pictures of cracks he didn't mean to get lol.

As a building surveyor, I can't fault your content. Great stuff! Keep it coming.

Very informative video Roger. I see alot of cracks where loadbearing timber windows have been replaced with UPVC [generallly houses built 50s, 60s and 70s] and the cracks and deforming of brickwork above as a consequence. Helifix works well here to create a beam effect to prevent further movement and I have also seen Acrow props used to allow for inclusion of a metal angle to act as a lintel to the external brickwork. It would be good if you could do a video on this problem, as it seems to be in every town and village.

Thank you, I was literally staying up worrying 😂👍I've had several cracks appearing this year and it makes sense that it's my draining outside

Nice description without the scare mongering and other associated crap. The video is appreciated.

I lived in a house built on marsh land in Cheshire East. It had been underpinned once already. It was rented. One day a builder turned up to look at knocking a wall from the back room to the kitchen as the kitchen was tiny, even for a galley kitchen. He walked in, took one look down the hall and said, the left hand side is leaning to the left and the right hand side to the right. We never saw him again. When the kitchen floor had to come up, the house was sat in 18" of water. In the back garden, if you looked, you could see the kink in the brickwork and where it had been repaired once already. Was wonderful when i left that dump.

Thanks for this video, it was very informative! People do worry when they see cracks in there houses, but understanding that the ground moves depending on the climate conditions may put peoples minds at ease!