Groundwork & Foundations

Hairline cracks in walls starting to get more noticable

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 2.37 PM

Hi there I have moved into a house about 3 months ago. There were some hairline cracks which I covered with polyfiller and then painted the whole house. I finished painting about a month ago. Now these cracks are reappearing and are more cracks then before. In the past couple of weeks there have been a lot more appearing. I have just quickly doodled a very rough sketch of the the two ground floor reception rooms. The cracks weren't showing up well on pictures. You can see pic here.. http://imageshack.us/f/835/photo1fba.jpg/ Now in the image are two reception rooms, the middle section is where the hallway/stairs are. The dotted lines indicate where the cracks are. As you can see in the left room, the cracks appear to form a large cross which goes onto the ceiling. The horizontal like then goes right into the hallway, and then in the right room, the cracks are more scattered, roughly horizontal. Would you say this is worth getting check out? If so, who would be best to contact? A structural engineer perhaps? The paint is on plasterboard, which is on a solid brick construction Thanks in advance