Should I be worried about these v-shaped cracks in the newly poured foundation

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The foundation company just took the forms off, and when I went to take a look, I noticed three sides had this v-shaded crack on them that's visible both inside and outside the foundation wall.

Foundation 1

Foundation 2

This is for a garage, the location is New England. If water gets in those cracks and freezes, isn't that going to be a problem?

Best Answer

Those cracks look like the contractors partially filled the forms with concrete and then allowed it to set up too much before coming back to fill the forms the rest of the way. It is probably not a really great problem as long as:

  1. The wall has plenty of rebar embedded in it.
  2. The outside faces of the foundation walls are treated with the appropriate type of water proofing.
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