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   IMERC | Sep 08, 2003 06:31am | #1

   Might be the door...

   Check you alignment and hinges.

    

   Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....

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   buyhoney | Sep 08, 2003 08:36am | #2

   I looked at a house earlier this year that was built on a mono floating slab around 8 years ago. In the past 2 years the floor has cracked and heaved throughout the house and has cause many problems. the original engineer came to look at it and can't say why. It seems to my in my humblest op that clay is very diificult. It is heavy and moves way too much. It dries  and shrinks, when wet it heaves. very difficult to control and worse to repair. This poor house looks like its gone through an earthquake. the engineer said he thought it was drainage  problem. so we treeched in french drains and improved slope @ the house. now its sitting waiting to see what happens. No ideas on how to repair the exitsing damage to walls, roof, floor. My point , How is the drainage? You don't want that water getting under your slab.

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   BobKovacs | Sep 08, 2003 04:07pm | #3

   The ground could have swelled and raised the slab, but the framing also could have shrunk and pinched the door.  The cracks, if only hairline, are probably typical shrinkage cracking, and I've always found them to add character to a stained floor.

   Bob

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   jagwah | Sep 08, 2003 04:46pm | #4

   All the responses sound good but I lean to the interior framing. A lot of houses here are left standing to long before finishing the roof and exterior. Framing soaks up the rains. Then the interior drywall is a put on to soon.

   You probably already know this. You get serious cracks and corner bead pops. Sometimes it's hard to keep an eye on trim people and to many times they leave,surprisingly, their cubs to hang the doors.

   It's amazing how little you have to do to get a door 'slapped up'. When I've gone back on jobs with door issues and remove the trim to look at the shimming, I almost always find none used. To compound things they use light weight gauge finish nails to hold the jamb in place.

   To me, when I was full time contracting, hanging doors was a craft to itself. One I often tried to take on as time would let me.

   I hope it's just a door issue for you.

   One other thing I always did was to tell clients to allow one year from their move-in. After one year I'd come in with a cleaning crew,drywall crew, paint crew whatever was needed to address all the little settlings the house would go through for the first year. I assured them we weren't abandoning them and would take care of issues that were immediate  like stuck doors and leaky faucets etc. But letting them know that their home was going to have some growing pains settling in.