Seasonal movement - Resin or Concrete underpin

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Hi there,

Our property has some seasonal/weather dependent movement.
This is causing a lot of hair lone cracks in the old Gib joins and two more serious-looking cracks on the external brick veneer.
It's a two-storied block and brick house on the Northshore, built on clay soil...

[Marc]

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