Moved into a new home several months ago and noticed that the seams in the ceiling connecting the drywall can actually be seen in one room. Is this a common problem?? and what can be done. Do I have any recourse??
yes and no ..... as it a new home it take some time to settle ... i would suggest around i year ..... but in your case , they didnt apply much mud to the celing if your ceiling is just painted , with texture, this will happen most home cover the ceiling in texture hideing this ... maybe after a year you could re address this issue but i n the mean time , take , pictures, date the pictures, and call your builder..... most builders will fix them , but not til lthe building has stop moveing , you can see why .... to answer your question yes it is commen
it happens when the drywaller has a bad finisher. They should have applied compund to the seams to make it look seamless in the end. You can do this yourself or hire someone to do it. When you are done the compound work, you , of course, will have to re-paint.
Is it a newly built house? Its quite common for the house to move around a bit while it is settling, and this causes beams to do this! It can be fix fairly easily and most building contracts have a 3 monthly and yearly maintenace guarantee Call your builder and see if you can claim the reapirs! =)
Everyone in my family has had a home built and it happened every time. I'm told that this is from the house settling a bit. That is also the reason that when we finished our house, we picked an off-white shade of paint and painted the entire house with it. Then once we dealt with all these issues, we got more creative with the painting and decorating. Since it is not happening in the entire house, I don't really think that it is due to bad workmanship.
I am a 37 year experienced painter, which has included tons of drywall finishing as well...Now days people use that crappy fiberglass tape and assume this will save one coat of mud(joint compound) on the ceilings, and walls as well...A real finisher will use the paper tape and apply the full 3 coats required and not two like most of these handyman/fiberglass tape users...They have been doing this for years ..quality workmanship is hard to find..also alot of people think that you simply run the joint compound down the center of the tape and this is called taping and floating..not so..to float...means to make even..some joints require floating out to one side or the other..sometime both on bad rafters as far as 36 inches to either side..You do not see that much anymore..they run the joint compound down the center of the joint..and think that is all thier is to it...Your problem is shoddy tradesmen/builders...
