Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Apr 18, 2023 10:10 am Hi Sorry about the silly question; we are first-home buyers looking to buy our first property and learning a lot. One property we are interested in has a lot of external wall cracks outside (double brick), and the current owner seems to have done a lot of self-patching (?) We spoke with two builders; one builder said it is all good and nothing urgent since there is no internal cracking it is nothing urgent the outside brick is just a facade as the interior brick is holding all the weight (?) Another builder said we should consider doing brick rendering/ join and resolve it sooner than later. We are planning to repaint the external brick in the futre and thinking of fixing it then (3-5 years). Or is this something we should get fixed ASAP? Thank you in advance (photos below) Regards https://imgur.com/a/bl2S036 In my opinion, this is because the posts are built in control joint way. Control joints are normally placed in non-structural floating slab at maximum 3.0m spacing. So if… 3 1592 Ground movement due to stormwater discharge from disconnected downpipe in combination of lack of isolation joints between the external pavement and building. This is from… 2 1640 Thanks for the detailed comments chippy, I'll use this as a guide. 3 1633 |