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I assume you can substantiate these 500 year old records or is it just hearsay from generations of dead people.
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Movement isn't the only thing that causes cracking, temperature changes cause shrinkage and new builds suffer from settling and cracking due to temperature changes too.You may well believe this is the case, but new build houses move because they are inadequately constructed, as I have said earlier, I have been involved with some very high end housing and any cracking of the internal plaster would not be tolerated, unseasoned timber used in timber frames and internal walls, probably deck cargo brought over from, who knows where, during the drying process of this timber probably causes excessive movement and hence cracking, something the RICS, ARIBA, ICE and ISE have been putting forward as the reason for cracking in Court cases for quite a number of years. My flint stone house is over five hundred years old is built straight off a chalk strata bed and has no foundations and has not moved or cracked anywhere.
The only strange thing here is how you think you know absolutely everything about everything, and your very weird obtuse pedantic use of words. Everybody knows movement in terms of planes physically moving within houses and movement due to shrinking and expansion are usually referred to differently but you decide to lump them all in together. The same as how you decided to try to start a fight because someone didn't explicitly state that blown render should be hacked off even though literally everybody else understands implicitly that that's what the guy meant.Strange post, movement is the only thing that causes cracking, whether that movement is due to temperature or subsidence its still movement, If a material is not stable i.e. not seasoned then yes it will move with temperature changes, new builds suffer from movement due to material deficiencies compared to older building practices, brick and block rather than timber frames, just a fact for anyone who has been in the industry longer than ten minuets.
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