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This thread is worthless without the OP telling everyone if they're installed on a concrete slab or a 2nd floor / 1st floor on a pier and beam foundation.
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My house is 10 years old now. I just noticed 2 long cracks on my tile floor. The tile floor has been there for probably 10 years too.
What caused this? Is this anything I need to be worried about? What kind of repair should I do?
Houston is in a terrible drought. You may have noticed that the soil along your curbs, sidewalks and foundation has pulled away an inch or more.
The clays in the ground have dried to a point that they have not in at least 50 years.
Your slab is probably moving and you may have a problem that will require pro repair. I'm not sure if I would spend any money until this drought has broken unless it's on a foundation watering system. Call around and get bids/opinions from a lot of foundation repair contractors.
I can vouch for Jericho, but they aren't cheap. They'll knock out the work in a day, but you're paying for a big crew.
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This thread is worthless without the OP telling everyone if they're installed on a concrete slab or a 2nd floor / 1st floor on a pier and beam foundation.
The OP's house is recent construction, slab-on-grade in the Southwesterly portion of drought-ridden Houston, TX. His kitchen is downstairs.
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Ooooo.... ouch. Yeah that's bad. I've gotta ask, is the house by KB?
That I don't know. KB has a lot of standing inventory on the North and Northwest sides. Southwest is more DR Horton and Brighton territory, but it's a mish-mash across the metro and it changes from neighborhood-to-neighborhood. At any rate, you see a lot of post-tension foundations with pretty skinny slabs (some are less than 8") and the drought has been pretty rough on those systems.
Ooooo.... ouch. Yeah that's bad. I've gotta ask, is the house by KB?
What's KB?
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