Cracked calcium silicate brick installed

The sand-lime brick with a crack is on the exterior wall. Is the load-bearing capacity still guaranteed despite the crack?

What exactly do you expect: that the brick will fall out and avalanche-like everything above it in the house will slip down, and suddenly there is a pile of stones in the garden that was just your house?

If the brick were to be replaced now, would it be a lot of work?

It would definitely be the most efficient way to earn the "softie" stamp from the construction workers. In the construction trades, lawyers are considered more pleasant customers than teachers. Just something to think about.

and in no other house have I found such cracked sand-lime bricks.

If you had X-ray eyes and could see through plaster ... :-) I think it was Bismarck who was said to have remarked that it’s better if people don’t know exactly how sausages and laws are made. I won’t say anything about that, I was involved in local politics for years and come from a butcher dynasty *LOL*

If you're so worried about a cracked sand-lime brick.... oh dear... what will happen to the rest of the house.

Such a single stone isn’t that expensive.

How much do you think then? 10 euros? If you now consider that the KS factory has your house plans and has planned every wall individually and you then received the counted stones, at least another 60 or so euros for picking, shipping, and administration are added on top of your material value.

What if your house had been built with stones half as wide? Would you then also have concerns?

oh man, you are all so friendly here...

What if your house had been built with stones half as wide? Would you also have worries then?

Since exterior walls have been built from large block stones, that is pure stretcher bond without headers, and statistically the overall static responsibility is more carried by the individual stone, it has remained that "Einstürzende Neubauten" is still just the name of a band from my youth :-) No problemo, as they would say on Melmac ;-)

oh man, you are all so friendly here...

Yes. Your masons would simply and curtly answer your worries with the question "are you gay?" I believe writers should generally not watch screwdrivers at work.

@TE: I hope you don't mean me. If you do, please show me the unfriendliness. I find the penultimate sentence discriminatory now @ant11. There are certainly also gay bricklayers.