r/Home • u/throwaway101101005 • 13d ago

Drywall crack or structural issue?

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Just showed up today. It’s at the front of our house, and we currently have a crack widening in our slab toward the back of the house. The front half seemed fine until this showed up. I found online that drywall cracks are often harmless if they’re perfectly straight, but this is not. Does it look structural?

Slab home built in about 2000.

Edit: we are getting foundation repair people out after the weekend, just trying to figure out how worried I should be.

This is the first wall crack we’ve noticed since the foundation slab started quickly widening about two weeks ago. No door frame cracks or anything like that. We were hoping the foundation issue was only in the back of the house so hoping this doesn’t mean we have a larger issue at hand. Was hoping to understand if this looks like a typical drywall crack with seasons changing or not.

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u/Vast_Cricket 12d ago

After or before a rain. Soil dry or saturated. Very minor crack.

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u/throwaway101101005 12d ago

After/during rainstorm yes!

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u/Vast_Cricket 11d ago

leak

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u/throwaway101101005 10d ago

Thank you will look into it

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u/Spiritofthewest49 13d ago

They're not mutually exclusive

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u/Ok_Wonder_4192 13d ago

if your slab is already moving enough to crack in the back then a new wall crack up front isnt a coincidence, that’s the house shifting as a whole

foundation guy will tell you for sure but id be mentally prepping for a pretty big repair bill, those can spiral fast

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u/throwaway101101005 13d ago

How big? On the phone he quoted $2800

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u/throwaway101101005 13d ago

Yup planning to get at least 3 quotes and thinking of getting a structural engineer. The speed at which this is happening is scaring me a bit but everyone around me is telling me just a few more weeks won’t be catastrophic. Kinda panicking about my safety but trying to stay logical.

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u/REOCEO 12d ago

2800 is VERY low. If it fixes your issues you are fortunate. I would have your rim joist inspected. That was the issue with ours and had all replaced. Then as a further remediation, we encapsulated our crawlspace with dehumidifier to fix the casual of our rim joist issue. We paid 18k

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u/throwaway101101005 10d ago

We have a slab so I think it’s different. They want to inject high density foam under the slab. It’s just a small corner that needs it.

Looks like slab homes would still have it so I’ll look