Texas man says a hairline crack grew until he could ‘see right into the wall,’ but his builder told him it’s ‘purely cosmetic’

A Texas homeowner says he has spent the past year trying to get his builder to address problems with his house. He says what started as a few small cracks has since become a much bigger concern.

The man, who posts on TikTok as TexpatBBQ – Your Brisket Daddy, shared a video walking through his home. He points his camera at crack after crack, with some running from one side of a wall to the other.

According to the creator, the trouble began with a hairline crack on the outside of his house. He says the crack has since grown wide enough that he can “see right into the wall.” A “giant crack” starts near the foundation and runs upward toward the roofline, appearing to widen as it gets higher. Changing his angle, he points to the side of the roof, where he says you can “literally see where the house is pushing through the side of the roof.”

The homeowner says Lennar found nothing structural to fix

Inside, he points out more problems. A crack cuts across a bathroom wall. A bathtub faucet appears to be pulling away from the tile. Cracks run through the ceiling upstairs. Some doors, he says, no longer close all the way.

He also said his house is “still inside a 10-year warranty” and that he spent 12 months asking Lennar Homes to address the problems. He says Lennar inspectors checked the foundation and other parts of the structure.

Afterward, the creator says the company told him that the damage was not structural. “It is purely cosmetic,” he says the builder told him, adding that Lennar said there was “nothing to fix.”

Commenters, including some who described themselves as engineers or lawyers, urged him to get an independent structural report and consider legal action. Those professional claims could not be verified.

A follow-up video traces what he says is one crack

In another follow-up video, the homeowner walked through the house to show what he says is the same crack running through several parts of the property. He starts outside at what he calls “a crack in the foundation,” then follows it upward through the brick and points to a window that he says is “separating.” Inside, he traces the line through the dining room, bathroom and garage before showing what he says is the same crack on the opposite side of the house.

The homeowner says he had already brought in his own inspector before contacting Lennar Homes, and that the inspector pointed out the foundation crack and other issues. Lennar later sent two people to examine the foundation, he says, using equipment to measure the floor. They concluded that “your foundation’s good.” Lennar has not issued any public statement addressing the video, and its account of the inspections could not be verified.

He questioned the conclusion, asking, “How does a reasonably straight or flat foundation create that?” Some commenters suggested the crack could be an expansion joint. The homeowner acknowledged the possibility, saying, “Yeah, okay, sure, that makes sense,” but questioned whether it explained the other areas he had shown.

The question of what caused the cracking has come up in other recent homeowner posts, too. A Minnesota woman recently said cracks appeared in her home after nearby construction started, and said her request to pause the work was turned down.

In a separate video filmed at an airport, the homeowner said the response to his posts had also reached Lennar’s Instagram page. He claimed the builder had since turned off comments on its account and showed screenshots of some of the comments before they disappeared. That claim could not be independently verified. One person asked whether a house split in half would “technically have two houses.”