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EigenheimBW1730 Dec 2017 22:30Hello everyone,
I am new to this forum and generally a beginner when it comes to houses. I recently purchased a wooden house that is about 10 years old. The interior walls are made with Fermacell boards, and all transitions to the ceiling have recessed shadow gaps. During some cosmetic renovation work, I removed the wallpaper and applied a fine-grain textured roller plaster. The walls under the wallpaper were very smooth, and the joints between the Fermacell boards were neatly filled and even. Therefore, I only applied a primer and then the roller plaster.
After about a month, unfortunately, especially on the upper floor and in the corners of the rooms, long, thin cracks about one to two millimeters (0.04 to 0.08 inches) wide appeared from ceiling to floor, and they are quite frayed. In a few places, there are also cracks between two Fermacell boards on flat walls without corners or at the lintel above a window.
Now to my questions:
Is it normal for the wood to still move and cracks to appear after more than ten years?
Why were no cracks visible under the wallpaper at the joints that had been filled?
What is the best way to address this, since just filling the cracks again would probably cause them to reopen, right?
Thank you very much for your advice and best wishes for the New Year!
EigenheimBW17
I am new to this forum and generally a beginner when it comes to houses. I recently purchased a wooden house that is about 10 years old. The interior walls are made with Fermacell boards, and all transitions to the ceiling have recessed shadow gaps. During some cosmetic renovation work, I removed the wallpaper and applied a fine-grain textured roller plaster. The walls under the wallpaper were very smooth, and the joints between the Fermacell boards were neatly filled and even. Therefore, I only applied a primer and then the roller plaster.
After about a month, unfortunately, especially on the upper floor and in the corners of the rooms, long, thin cracks about one to two millimeters (0.04 to 0.08 inches) wide appeared from ceiling to floor, and they are quite frayed. In a few places, there are also cracks between two Fermacell boards on flat walls without corners or at the lintel above a window.
Now to my questions:
Is it normal for the wood to still move and cracks to appear after more than ten years?
Why were no cracks visible under the wallpaper at the joints that had been filled?
What is the best way to address this, since just filling the cracks again would probably cause them to reopen, right?
Thank you very much for your advice and best wishes for the New Year!
EigenheimBW17