Back in July I got the bathroom done up which included a skim coat of plaster and, about a week later, a couple of coats of paint. It's a flat in an 1890s tenement block.
Mid September, after a cold night, a couple of cracks appeared in the wall to the tenement stair, both about 3 feet long and wavy, one horizontal and one vertical; they don't quite meet at the top of the vertical one but not far off.
A couple of months on, and I thought that was as bad as it was going to get, but last night was another cold 'un and lo! another crack. Again, it's vertical and runs up from the tongue and groove panelling to the horizontal crack so there's pretty much a rectangle of cracks.
So, if we have a cold winter, am I likely to end up with crazy walling? Is what's happened par for the course? How long before I can be sure there will be no more and ask the firm back to patch it up?
Thanks for any advice.
Mid September, after a cold night, a couple of cracks appeared in the wall to the tenement stair, both about 3 feet long and wavy, one horizontal and one vertical; they don't quite meet at the top of the vertical one but not far off.
A couple of months on, and I thought that was as bad as it was going to get, but last night was another cold 'un and lo! another crack. Again, it's vertical and runs up from the tongue and groove panelling to the horizontal crack so there's pretty much a rectangle of cracks.
So, if we have a cold winter, am I likely to end up with crazy walling? Is what's happened par for the course? How long before I can be sure there will be no more and ask the firm back to patch it up?
Thanks for any advice.