If you pull up your carpet, chances are pretty good you will find cracks in your concrete slab. Could you build a concrete slab without any cracks? Probably, but not using standard building specifications. It would cost you 4 or 5 times what you would normally pay for the same slab of concrete and even then the contractor would not guarantee it to never get a crack. My contractor in Illinois that built my custom home a few years told me there are only two types of basements----one that has water and one given enough time will get water. I had told him do everything possible to keep water out of my basement. I suspect concrete slabs (as others posts have mentioned) have cracks or given enough time are going to have some cracks. Its the nature of the beast! As a matter of fact, we were invited to see this contractor's new home (it was in the million dollar range) and guess what? His garage floor had a crack from one side to the other! True story. When I mentioned it to him, he just laughed. Small crack in your concrete floor----nothing to worry about.
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