Dick wrote:
Have a cathedral ceiling in living room of condo. The ceiling has a
dormer with a window. The condo is three years old and for those past
three years, when we return home the celing is cracked (roughly 2 ft
wide) between the opening for the dormer and the wall. The builder has
always repaired but he is now hedging saying that the problem is when
we shut the house down without any ventillation or ac, the ceiling is
being stressed because of the heat building up during the hot days of
summer. Is this a valid theory? Should I buy into this or is there a
problem with construction? What does it take to correct problem?

Need more information.

The builder is full of crape.

The crack is 2' long or really 2' wide?

What is the wall/ceiling material that is cracking? Is it in the
joints or corners?

Most cracks are caused by a water source. Could the dormer be a water
source? Flashings, step flashings, siding, valleys could all be
sources.

-Lee