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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: haqihana who wrote (50654)	5/17/2000 2:52:00 PM
From: nasdaqian	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

I'd like to take things in a more concrete direction for a second if you don't mind. I recently built (had built) a house and in talking to a contractor about something or other his response to a question I had was "better ask Jeeves" to which we both chuckled (politely on my part). Everybody's so f'ng internet savvy. Anyway, I have a specific concern about some concrete that is cracking after just a month or two. I noticed all the talk about structures and mortise and tenon construction and with such a wealth of knowledgeable, experienced, resourceful bunch of n'er-do-wells, I mean ladies and gentlemen, looking for something to kick around, I thought: "Don't ask Jeeves. Instead, Don't Ask Rambie." So, in that vain, is it normal for concrete to develop a twenty foot long, .10 inch wide crack so early or at all given that no earthquakes or nearby explosions of sufficient force have occurred in that location for quite a while? Covering all bases: neither have we had even a single elephant, hippopotamus or whale visit or any other animal or machine of sufficient mass to account for such stress. We're not so popular. Myself, family, dog, or other persons have not, to my knowledge, endeavored to exert any telekinetic forces of adequate strength to account for it either. A theory which emerged about a recent Mexican restaurant aftermath has been discounted as just a bunch of hot air. As far as I know the land is not the site of an Indian burial ground and is not possessed by demons. Granted some of my stocks fell pretty hard during the recent market swoon, but none of my holdings were of sufficient weight, really. The buoyancy in interest rates should have offset that in any case. I'm at twits end. Anyone have any dope on this? I would really like some dope, and if anyone knows about the hard stuff, I'd appreciate some of that too. Signed, Cracked