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Thank you.

He did, as I said in my original post. He filled them then repainted the wall. But they cracked again as soon as the room heated up on a warm day, literally hours after he left on his last day of work. So I’d really like to know, if I get him back, how they should be filled properly this time so...

They opened up the day he finished though. Which makes me wonder if he should have repaired the cracks using a different method or using a different meterial, given they came straight back.

Ok, wasn’t looking for you to malign anyone, just for advice! My decorator is in his 60’s, incidentally, so has also been doing this work for a long time.

Thank you. So my situation is now that I have a freshly painted wall with the same cracks reappearing. Should the decorator really have known how to properly treat them? And do I get him back to treat them properly and repaint that wall?!

Oh I see. So does it being a cavity wall suggest what might be going on, then?

The wall generally sounds very solid when knocking on it. There are areas that sound a little less solid around where the cracks are though. I appreciate this is hard to know without looking in person! Just want to know why they’ve returned and what I can do to make them gone, really. It’s a bit...

It’s solid plaster I believe on a brick wall. I’ve attached a pic of the outside wall. I’m not sure how to tell if it’s a cavity wall or not. If it’s minor thermal movement, I’m wondering what would cause that to start after there having been no cracks at all for a number of years. Also, can...

I’m attaching photos but I’m not sure what the resolution will be like once they’re uploaded and you look at them. The cracks are less than a millimetre wide. I’ve marked up a photo of the entire wall to show where they are. The ones on the left appeared within a week of being filled, as soon as...

My son’s room has just been redecorated and previously he had a lot of fine cracks in the plaster on the external facing wall. They’d appeared gradually over about 5 years and were vertical and horizontal. The decorator filled them and repainted two weeks ago. Then one warm evening after he’d...