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It's pretty easy to tell if it's paint cracking. Just take a knife to it and see if it flakes off.
To me it just looks like hairline fractures that happens to poured concrete from settling. It's not a major concern unless the cracks are wider or there's wall displacement
If this is on top of stucco, which is what it looks like to me 90% of the time this is fine. Stucco cracks and paint doesn’t hide it. Stucco really isn’t meant to have paint on it causes the moisture to get trapped and that can begin the process of the lime leaching out bc it’s essentially shitty concrete. Ideally you would put a new top layer of stucco that’s a different color which is more expensive than painting but it’s the proper way to do it. It doesn’t show problems like this for 10+ years typically after painting but eventually sections will fall off from the underlying structure when the stucco deteriorates enough. This can be easily patched and be replaced. The real risk is if this is humid climate the stucco will absorb the rain, the paint will trap it and cause the studs to rot. So if you are in the southwest I wouldn’t worry about it as much. But never buy stucco houses in a place it rains often lots of builders getting in trouble with this. Unfortunately you cannot tell if a stud is rotten from the outside unless there is a big bulge at the bottom of the wall, that’s called a stud buckle. But you can see if there is a crawl space that might give you a good look at he studs. Sometime you can get a good look at studs in the inside of the garage and so long as they are the same age it can tell you something about the condition the house might be in. A lot of houses built in the 1950-70s still had high quality very resinous would which resists rot but newer stick builds do not because new
Wood it crap. That being said if this is in the southwest I have seen 100 year old stucco doing great, but it’s all about water management just keep an eye out for really big cracks or termite droppings. Hope that helps!
Looks like a minor cracks. If there are no cracks on the interior walls, ceiling, at the corners of the door and windows, there is nothing to worry about. But - please check grading - make sure all water is draining away from the house, not towards the foundation.
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It's pretty easy to tell if it's paint cracking. Just take a knife to it and see if it flakes off.
To me it just looks like hairline fractures that happens to poured concrete from settling. It's not a major concern unless the cracks are wider or there's wall displacement
If this is on top of stucco, which is what it looks like to me 90% of the time this is fine. Stucco cracks and paint doesn’t hide it. Stucco really isn’t meant to have paint on it causes the moisture to get trapped and that can begin the process of the lime leaching out bc it’s essentially shitty concrete. Ideally you would put a new top layer of stucco that’s a different color which is more expensive than painting but it’s the proper way to do it. It doesn’t show problems like this for 10+ years typically after painting but eventually sections will fall off from the underlying structure when the stucco deteriorates enough. This can be easily patched and be replaced. The real risk is if this is humid climate the stucco will absorb the rain, the paint will trap it and cause the studs to rot. So if you are in the southwest I wouldn’t worry about it as much. But never buy stucco houses in a place it rains often lots of builders getting in trouble with this. Unfortunately you cannot tell if a stud is rotten from the outside unless there is a big bulge at the bottom of the wall, that’s called a stud buckle. But you can see if there is a crawl space that might give you a good look at he studs. Sometime you can get a good look at studs in the inside of the garage and so long as they are the same age it can tell you something about the condition the house might be in. A lot of houses built in the 1950-70s still had high quality very resinous would which resists rot but newer stick builds do not because new Wood it crap. That being said if this is in the southwest I have seen 100 year old stucco doing great, but it’s all about water management just keep an eye out for really big cracks or termite droppings. Hope that helps!
Looks like a minor cracks. If there are no cracks on the interior walls, ceiling, at the corners of the door and windows, there is nothing to worry about. But - please check grading - make sure all water is draining away from the house, not towards the foundation.
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