Browse Forums Building A New House Re: What causes hairline cracks in walls? 5Aug 25, 2010 8:30 pm Rather than not paint for 6 months, can you paint and then repaint after 6 months. Costs more, but who wants to live in an unpainted house. Demolition August 2009, Construction Started September 2009, Completed December 2010 Re: What causes hairline cracks in walls? 7Aug 26, 2010 1:55 am Hi Karbern. What sort of construction? Double brick or brick veneer. Are these gaps internal or external. That will help to give more accurate answers. Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 Re: What causes hairline cracks in walls? 8Aug 26, 2010 9:28 am The bottom picture in this post shows both an articulation joint and weep holes .. this might be useful to help identify them. viewtopic.php?p=555505#p555505 Metricon Riva 33 - http://herlihy-riva.blogspot.com Site start 15/03/2010 - Handover 23/12/2010 9 months and 8 days (284 calendar days) from site start to handover Re: What causes hairline cracks in walls? 9Aug 27, 2010 12:20 pm Casa2 Rather than not paint for 6 months, can you paint and then repaint after 6 months. Costs more, but who wants to live in an unpainted house. Yep of course you can. There's no guarantee that you'll get cracking, so may as well paint. I'd definitely do the undercoat and a couple of coats of your chosen colour, that way if you do get any cracking, it will be easier to hopefully patch and blend in. Paint stores will be able to give you some good advice for this as well. The spacing of the studs looks pretty large especially for a load bearing wall. 3 11262 It sounds like you have a crack in your garage where the wall meets the ceiling, along the shadow line on the… 0 17288 Do you have a scope of works? If have texture on wall now, the patch will show through The standard for repair of texture is to patch, re-texture corner to corner,… 5 7012 |