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Last Updated: Monday, January 15th, 2001, Created: Monday, January 15th, 2001

Hiding a plaster crack caused by truss uplift

Bob from Welland, Ontario has a crack in his wall that just comes and goes, and when he tries patching it, the crack just reappears. He has heard of truss uplift and believes that that may be what is causing the cracking. (Check the Nuts & Bolts for the keyword "truss" to get details on what truss uplift is.)

It does sound like that is Bob's problem, but his crack is not between a wall and the ceiling, where it could be hidden with cove molding. It is right on the face of a wall because the truss is right behind that bit of wall.

So I dropped by the House & Home offices to talk to the designers for ideas as to how to hide this crack that we cannot stop. They came up with the great idea of building a column at the corner of the wall, putting a shelf on top and arranging flowers on it, spreading out enough to cover the crack. One easy way to make that column would be to cut one quarter out of a large sono tube, and paint or texture the tube after attaching it to the corner of the wall.

Camouflage is about the only answer to this truss uplift problem.

Keywords: Cracks, Plaster, Truss

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