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I am thinking about getting a drywall contractor over and get an opinion from him about what he thinks the issue may be. If he thinks that it's the wood shrinking that's causing the issue, I'll probably wait through the summer to let it dry completely (and possibly worsen the nail pops/cracks)...

I'm not sure if the roof was leaking. But most likely, it was since the neighbor tells me that the roof was in pretty bad shape before it was replaced by the bank. The person looking at the issue told me that if there are too many vents at the top (that is, gable vents + vents that were...

Thanks for your response. I am not exactly sure for how long it was empty. But I believe that it was at least for about 6 months. In addition to the nail pops in the ceiling, there are new recent nails pops between the joint of the wall and the ceiling came up just recently though. So, there was...

I bought a bank owned house in October and moved in to the house in January. It's a two story house and the house has an elevated ceiling (I think t's called cathedral ceiling). The ceiling had some nail pops and some cracks in the main joint. I had a person come over and have the nail pops and...