Hi,
I bought a house in June 2015 from Persimmon and everything has generally been ok with the house apart from a number of initial snagging issues which got resolved quickly by the site team just after I moved in.
However yesterday when I returned home from work I noticed a thin crack had formed on the right hand side of the front facade of my house between the bottom corner of the upstairs window & the top corner of the ground floor window. It runs along the mortar joint for some of the way but goes vertically down for a lot of the run. It's run is about 2 - 2.5m.
I also went into the garden and a crack has also formed on the left hand side of the house again between the bottom left hand corner of the first floor window frame & the top left hand corner of the patio door surround. Again for the majority of the run the crack is vertical breaking mortar joints and the brick faces. Please see the attached pictures.
I have no issues inside the house. No cracks or visible movements, doors and windows seem to open fine and are not sticking (apart from front door which is black so exam dead in the heat when we had the sun a few weeks ago)
The house is your standard timber framed construction method.
I have contacted the house builder for investigations, and am waiting to hear back due to the weekend, and was thinking about getting in a structural engineer to survey it for me as it could be subsidence. I've looked at a few of the properties around mine and all seem to be fine.
Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome.