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Wonder of wonders... I just talked to my neighbor who's been doing a bunch of work on his house this weekend, too. Turns out that he's a retired concrete contractor. He says that there's little one can do other than cover up this sort of thing. It's a cosmetic issue and can't really be...

Thanks for the welcome and the feedback. This happens on many houses here, Glenn. What people "in the business" have told me is that this results from the brick pushing against the corner of the foundation. It actually pushes the corner out of the slab. I have a few broken bricks...

I've uploaded photos of the repair. The first two pictures are of my house after repairing the crack in the manner I described earlier. http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm293/southtexgopher/IMAG0002.jpg Other side...

I conducted a repair on my house this weekend for this very same issue. I chiseled out the crack a bit with my cold chisel - but didn't go all the way into it. The crack was quite small - but there was an area a bit deeper that had a 1/8" crack in it that I did not go deep enough to completely...