Crack along ceiling and wall joint
This is a common interior joint crack that homeowners often try to evaluate for structural severity. It creates worry about whether the wall or ceiling will fail, leaving people unsure if it is just a superficial drywall issue or something requiring professional inspection.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1pulling all the tape out of the corner and following online drywall repair tutorials
- 2hiring a professional to inspect or fix it by getting multiple quotes
- 3Open up the ceiling to check for trapped water
- 4Go into the attic to inspect the area
- 5Using fiber tape and 45-minute hot mud, then scraping, taping, packing, applying multiple layered coats of mud, sanding, priming, and repainting the ceiling.
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“We have cracks going along our ceiling, where we believe walls/dry wall was prior to us moving in. It's been about 4 years and it doesn't seem to be getting worse. We have tried to patch it with some wall patch but it is still visible.”source ↗
“Tried to take a few photos to show the size. It's an interior. There is a shed and covered porch on the other side of this wall. We have some other superficial cracks from the previous owners shotty drywalling, but this one is more significant.”source ↗
“Interior wall, I'm not sure about the trusses. How do you identify that?”source ↗
Where this came up
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