Patching and Plastering - Cracks in plaster

Hi all,

Hope someone can help and easy my worries! Basically I bought my first house last May and up to now all seems to have been fine. However I have started to notice quite a few long horizontal cracks on the walls about an inch below where it meets the ceiling and sone cracks that weave onto both. In other rooms the crack goes along the wall/ceiling join and sometimes vertically down the corners of the room. The house was built in 2001 and I am presuming that the walls are covered in plaster board or simular product. Some of the walls look like they have already been patched up in the past. I have heard that this can be commmon in new houses due to settling but I am also worried about subsidence and foundation problems.

Does anyone know much about this, is it something I should be worried about? Any help is much appeciated. (can provide pictures if neccesary, but new to the forum so don't really know how at the mo!)

Thanks in advance.

Katy :?

Welcome to the forums Katy!

I don't exactly know how to post pics either:o
most use a free site like Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com) to post their pics;)

Do you have plaster walls [would be a plaster veneer] or just drywall?

sounds to me like the tape is comming loose in your corners. Are the cracks in a straight line? If that is the case it should'nt be happening, but its a fairly easy fix.