installing the last of drywall and notice one wall not looking right. Put the eight foot level on it. That puppy is crooked, not at the top but at the bottom. It was 1 1/4 on each end of the eight foot. So I torn the wall apart looking. The bottom sill plate splice had moved. So tomorrow, hammer drill and more tapcon. It was an interior wall.
So my question is:
Am I the only one that has crooked walls ,or is it common. please say its common so I don,t feel like a dope.
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Never heard of anyone during my 40 years in construction that did what you did and ended up with such a crooked wall.
Gabe
Don't get around much Gabe? ;^)Do not try this at home!
I am a trained professional!
Couldnt you have just taken a sledge and knocked the wall straight without taking it all down????
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thats basically what I did. Really by taken down I meant I pulled the sheetrock off the bottom to locate the problem. I had to travel through that wall with the 12 foot sheet because I could not turn the corner, So I had a stud down, I must have kick the sill plate while carrying rock. This was the last wall that I sheeted. Top piece work O.K . Bottom piece had a bow where the splice moved. This wall seprated the living room from a small bedroom with a closet on that wall.
Sounds like a classic case of the very rare "creeping concrete syndrome". Authorities think that it may be caused be incomplete mixing of two rarely used concrete additives. Bulletins have been issued to warn the batch plants never to use these two additives together.
Only solution. tear out the slab and replace it with one without additives or fibers. Largest problem is where to dump the old slab pieces. Land fills will not accept it. when I had this problem six or seven years ago I dumped on the property line I shared with an a**hole neighbor, and in a month or two it had crept over to his property and was now his problem.
Good luck.
Your much more likely to be the only one with stright walls!