Hello all I am new to the Forum, but have been following the site for a while. I would really appreciate it if you can share your 2 cents on the wall cracks that I have noticed a couple of weeks on our 2-story New Construction home located in Florida. Home was probably finished sometime in March 2016. We purchased it at the end of May 2016 and started living in it at the end of July 2016. I have noticed alot of cracks about 2 weeks ago right after the few nights where the temperature dropped into 40F. I do not think that the cracks were there earlier than that because I do my own yard work and I am around the home at least twice a week. This winter has been dry and have not rained for a good 2 months. Yesterday finally we had a few showers. I have not seen any cracks on the second floor interior and exterior. The ones I have found are all in the 1st floor. Cracks are mostly on the left wall of the home. Maybe around 5 or 6. 2 Cracks are in the back wall only under the 2 window frames. 3 to 4 cracks in the Right wall of the home. They all are hariline cracks at the moment, but I am concerned since it is not only 1-2 cracks we are talking about. Builder wants to just seal from outside. The Garage left wall which is concrete block has hairline cracks that through the block and matches the cracked locations in the stucco. There are couple of doors not closing properly in the home, but these were there when we moved in and they are in the second floor. No cracks in door frames or around door frames. No issues when opening or closing windows. No funny sounds at night. Garage floor has only a couple of hairline cracks far away from the expansion cuts. I appreciate your time and advice. [attach]74133[/attach] [attach]74134[/attach] [ATTACH]74059[/ATTACH] [attach]74135[/attach] [attach]74136[/attach] [ATTACH]74062[/ATTACH] [attach]74137[/attach] [ATTACH]74065[/ATTACH] [attach]74138[/attach][attach]74140[/attach]

Not sure this is the correct forum, but I need to check I am getting estimates to have 12 2nd level windows caulked on our home plus reinsert 3-4 anchors into shutters. One estimate was $300 for reinsert 3-4 Anchors into shutters. I have reinserted some of these on the 1st level of the house an it takes about 8-10 minutes per The estimate on caulking the windows is $900. We live in central MD. I think $1200 is way out of range for the work. Another estimate was $560 another was $1,020 The estimator said it would take 6 hrs or more because it takes time to move the ladder. Any comments?