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The boiler is the 80HE plus model

Hi Dave, For a complete boiler novice, what does that mean in lehmans terms? Is it something that can be sorted easily? Thanks, Tony

The heatings not on yet and I believe most are turned off at the radiator but one of the radiators I noticed does heat up. So this one radiator does turn on despite the heating not being on. I can't say for the other radiators because they are not on.

Hi all, I've got the Baxi COmbi 80 HE boiler in my one bed flat. Now it all seems to work fine except when I want a bath. When I run a bath I have to run the bath so slowly to get an adequate temperature. This obviously takes an age to run but if I open the tap up any more it just becomes...

thanks for the replys. I don't believe there were any cracks in the original plaster, definately not like the one that's opened up. I stripped all the walls of paper and the plaster behind where the crack was solid. We've just moved into the house and the survey did not pick up anything...

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Here are some photos - hope you can see from them ok. the walls are brick behind and then there was plaster on top. My skim coat was put on top of that. If it's poor adhesion what does that mean needs to be done. If i tap the wall around the crack it sounds solid.

pictures of cracking plaster

Hi Richard, There were very few cracks in the plaster before, it just needed smartening up. I know the plasterer taped over any cracks that were there but the cracks that are appearing are not in the same places. There are several small cracks around the walls now and one long one that...

Hi, I'm looking for some advice. I had a bedroom where the plaster needed to be reskimmed. I got some guys in who skimmed the whole room. I waited two weeks and then painted using the correct paints but now maybe two months later there are cracks appearing in a few places over the walls...