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https://www.ingilby.co.uk/shop/-p100516340 The interesting thing it has peeled mostly along a kind of wavy line about an inch or so wide- I'm wondering if it is something to do with the combination of new lime plaster/old paint or where they meet. Parts of the paint over old paint/over lime...

Perhaps I wasn't clear. The wall I was painting over was (1) lime plaster - a patch repair done in January, unpainted, and (2) emulsion, from previous owners. The new paint - the paint I used - is distemper.

It said it was ok on lime. I checked before I bought it.

Thanks so much. So was I wrong to use an oil-bound distemper in the first place? I thought it would be ok on lime plaster.

I had part of a wall replastered with lime plaster at the start of January and have now being trying to repaint the whole wall. The rest of the wall (non-replastered section) must have been painted by the previous owners, I assume with a matt emulsion. The paint I chose was an oil-bound...

Thanks everyone for all your help. I appreciate the effort.

Just thinking about this - I have two heated towel rail type radiators, in bathrooms - would that not suffice to solve the problem of the boiler needing to pump its heat somewhere?

ok. I found this, about the boiler - presume this means there is no bypass included

ok. The boiler is a Worcester Bosch - Greenstar CDi Compact. I've just done a search of the online manual and there was no "find" for the word bypass. So maybe it doesn't have one of these? So the issue then is that if I somehow forgot to put a TRV to max when I had the thermostat in the same...

Thanks everyone for comments - I'm beginning to get my head round this. For now my room thermostat is on a stand so I can put it in any room. My understanding is that if the room has a TRV and I turn the TRV up to the max/fully on, it won't "block" the room thermostat. If that's correct, could I...

The old system had a clock that meant I could set the boiler to come off/on at certain times of day. It was only 24hr -not 7 day - that was a defect. But other than that I could simply switch the heating off. As well as controlling all rooms via valves on the radiators when it was on. So I...

I switched because I had very poor hot water flow upstairs. Before taking the plunge I had consulted many, many heating/plumbing engineers and basically this was the recommended fix - there was no room to raise my tank higher in the loft. The only alternative would have been to have some sort of...

So if I place the room stat in the hallway, for example, and set it to about 12 degrees - I wouldn't want it more than that. The radiator there will come on and stay on until it reaches 12 degrees and then turn the boiler off - is that right? Suppose I have another room that I'm actually in and...

So have I made a mistake installing this new system? It feels like I now have to heat my entire house - extension included... I'm used to having heating "off" most of the time.

Thanks! So in a room with a TRV, does it make any difference to how much gas I'm using if I turn the TRV down? My instinct is to turn down radiators in rooms I'm not using, to save gas. But perhaps with this new system I will spend the same on gas whether I heat all these rooms or not? It seems...