I live in Michigan and we have been hit with the VERY VERY cold winter and our dinning room walls are cracking.

I just went outside to shovel and saw my bricks are above my driveway.....

Should I be really worried?!?! Is this normal will this go back down?!?!?

See pictures attached

Mike

 

Your house should have been built with foundation footings below the frost line. You do have a basement, yes? Typical soil temperatures at footing depth should never come close to freezing, but rather in the neighborhood of 55 degrees F. All bets are off if your place is not code-compliant and built on a "shallow" crawl space, however.

I'm not sure what the brick photo is showing, other than someone having run a bead of caulk along the bottom mortar line. If anything, the adjacent sidewalk should be heaving. The dining room wall photo appears to have warping in the sheetrock (lower right corner)--wouldn't surprise me if you have water in that wall from ice dams building up on the roof. Check it with a moisture meter, or lacking that, tenderly poke it with an ice pick. If it's saturated, you'll know it.

 

to bdge,,, too bad there's not a ' thanks for an useful post ' on this forum,,, he'd get a lot of them !

 

Thank you for posting sorry I didn't get back sooner I'm very busy.

Part of my house is on a cement slab, which is where I'm having issues at I'm unsure how deep it goes.

The walls are in great condition there is no wrinkles/issues with the paint/drywall it's just a reflection from some tableware.

Sorry if I didn't explain more clear, the white "Caulk" is actually snow packed in from shoveling by the looks of things the mortar washed away from over time.... I have only seen this issue this year with the really big deep freeze we are having looks like it's moving up the slab or something along those lines...

Will this go back to normal? Or is this going to be a huge issue when Spring rolls around???

 

The slab usually doesn't go below the frost line but the footer that supports it should. Not sure if you can say for sure if it will all settle out when the weather warms up - time will tell

If you poke the 'bubbles' in the drywall is everything bone dry?