What to do if your house (ground beam) starts to crack?
It cracked just like in the pictures. The cracked from the ground beam up to the wall. I'll hope anyone who knows or works in this field can help me a little bit.
PS: I'm sorry I couldn't take many pictures today. I'll hope it helps. 🙇🏻♀️
That's not a crack, that's a direct split. Straight. All in the same direction.
Is it possible you have subsidence ? One side of the house dropping lower than the other ? That can be caused by drying water bed far below it or even through long periods of extreme heat or cold causing a drying of the soil beneath it.
I suspect if you asked a Builder to come and look they might well call a Surveyor to survey the land your home is built on.
@Picklebobble2 the main vertical line doesn't look like the crack she is talking about. that looks like an expansion contraction seam. The crack is on the bottom. I have no idea what a ground beam is and this looks like it's in a "foriegn" country. lol
@Picklebobble2 I looked up ground beam. It's like a foundation sill. Like you said, some sort of earth subsidence problem. No way of knowing anything from those pictures or what kind of building it is. If it's the ground floor of a huge apartment building and happened recently and fast without any earthquakes, I'd suggest moving or getting a structural engineer in there. lol There's a lot of sinkholes in the news this year.
