UnLevel Foundations Cause Cracks

Have you noticed that your floor is unlevel? cracks around window and door frames?
Maybe it’s time to check your foundations.
Like many homes in Brisbane, your house is most likely supported by stumps. these stumps are either concrete, timber or  steel. After some years, all of these type of stumps start to wear and deteriorate. Concrete house stumps will crack and begin to fall apart. Wooden timber house stumps rot away and steel house stumps will rust and they too reak and fall apart.

Cracks in Wall Caused by House Stumps

As house stumps start to deteriorate they will cause the house to sink a little, this imbalance in the property foundations causes cracks to appear in walls. These cracks are the first signs to look out for. The next thing to do is to have a look at your house stumps. Sometimes its obvious and you will see the damage first hand.

Other times it may be difficult to identify. Please refer to the images of broken cracked and rotted house stumps throughout this website for an indication of what to look for. Be aware that there may be many house stumps that have all sunk or rotted away at the same time. In this case the entire house may have shifted a little, or sunk on one side.