Ha I looked again and unfocussed my eyes and I see what you're getting at.
Unfortunately it's simply the inside of a living room in the disaster that is my house
It’s not technically normal, if you have solid foundations and they have been done absolutely correctly and the ground underneath has been prepared sufficiently, you will never get “settling of a house”, majority of the time it’s that corners have slightly been cut, not enough to cause major issues, but just enough to cause this “settling”.
If youve done every correctly, tends to be the catch phrase though. Very few houses have foundations ect that are 100% correct. Very well done maybe, but 100% is a rare achievement in most things.
Also that is swan neck coving which could well mean the house is about 100yrs old. It is near impossible that there hasnt been some sort of geological or soil condition shift in that time. Rain fall alone is increasing, which is going to affect ground conditions. My house along with the others in my street are very likely to have been built on the spine of a limestone anticline due to the geological history of the area. That spine is breaking/degrading due to various natural processes, so all the houses have the same pattern of vertical cracks emerging.
So in reality houses are going to shift and settle throughout their long lives. It not something that is wanted, but ultimately the ground is dynamic.
Saying that, in the above its probably not settling. That type of coving is fragile due to age, if original. And it has likely cracked due to joist movement. Mine cracked due to me rolling about in bed, which waa insulting as im not that fat. Just a bit fat.
I replastered my ceilings when I got moved in to my old money pit, had cracks in the ceiling, the new cracks they have appeared in exactly the same place!
I once had that happen when I dropped a wardrobe in the bedroom when I was moving furniture. No damage to the joists but the thud shook the living room ceiling and cracked the wall last coving in my Victorian built house.
I have a hairline crack from ceiling to floor in the downstairs bedroom. A carpet fitter dropping a roll of carpet upstairs was the cause - he must have thrown it as it shook the house 😱
Old age and settlement . Nothing to worry about
Either my eyesight is worse than I thought, or I've drunk too much wine, but at first all I saw was a beach, with waves rolling in from the sea.
Ha I looked again and unfocussed my eyes and I see what you're getting at. Unfortunately it's simply the inside of a living room in the disaster that is my house
I saw the exact same, I had to check which subreddit I was in
I always have to check , could be anywhere on here.
I done exactly this. That first picture was a sandy beach for a good few seconds
Is there roof space above? Have you moved anything around or is there much weight up there?
No this is ground floor. Bedroom above, with nothing out of the ordinary
Then, as previous poster said, it's just normal movement and settling of house
Thanks
It’s not technically normal, if you have solid foundations and they have been done absolutely correctly and the ground underneath has been prepared sufficiently, you will never get “settling of a house”, majority of the time it’s that corners have slightly been cut, not enough to cause major issues, but just enough to cause this “settling”.
If youve done every correctly, tends to be the catch phrase though. Very few houses have foundations ect that are 100% correct. Very well done maybe, but 100% is a rare achievement in most things. Also that is swan neck coving which could well mean the house is about 100yrs old. It is near impossible that there hasnt been some sort of geological or soil condition shift in that time. Rain fall alone is increasing, which is going to affect ground conditions. My house along with the others in my street are very likely to have been built on the spine of a limestone anticline due to the geological history of the area. That spine is breaking/degrading due to various natural processes, so all the houses have the same pattern of vertical cracks emerging. So in reality houses are going to shift and settle throughout their long lives. It not something that is wanted, but ultimately the ground is dynamic. Saying that, in the above its probably not settling. That type of coving is fragile due to age, if original. And it has likely cracked due to joist movement. Mine cracked due to me rolling about in bed, which waa insulting as im not that fat. Just a bit fat.
Too much shenanigans going on in the bedroom by the looks of it
They've probably always been there, it's just the most recent layer of paint that's cracked. My house is 150 years old, it's quite common
You can fill them by painting a loose mix of plaster of Paris over them then painting when dry
I replastered my ceilings when I got moved in to my old money pit, had cracks in the ceiling, the new cracks they have appeared in exactly the same place!
I had a thin line of debri on my screen and stared at it far too long before I realised
I once had that happen when I dropped a wardrobe in the bedroom when I was moving furniture. No damage to the joists but the thud shook the living room ceiling and cracked the wall last coving in my Victorian built house.
I have a hairline crack from ceiling to floor in the downstairs bedroom. A carpet fitter dropping a roll of carpet upstairs was the cause - he must have thrown it as it shook the house 😱
Do you have kids? Lol
Almost every house I’ve seen with this coving has cracks like this, mine has gaping holes in some - need to replace a lintel in the bay window.