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Thanks for replying. The hot water tank is full and when I remove the air lock everything is fine. Could the boiler not be heating the hot water tank too highly? Seems strange that we only have the issue when we start using the boiler more and never have an issue for 6 months of the year.

Hi Really hope someone can help with this. Current setup is a cold water tank in the loft with hot water tank below it. Standard boiler is in the cellar. There is a pump on the shower for a power shower. During the summer months we have no problems whatsoever with the thermostat set to heat...

Not to my knowledge, when we bought the house it had emulsion painted directly onto the plaster I'll add some pictures showing the scale tomorrow

The house is a 1930's semi but I don't know what is under the plaster. When we bought the house it had Matt emulsion on the walls which had no signs of this cracking. We painted on top of this coat In one place the plaster skim appears to be coming away from the wall but the rest it's just...

DIYer in distress First of all we sugar soaped existing Matt emulsion and painted 2 coats of B&Q Colours Matt emulsion over it. Cracking appeared so we sanded the cracks down and painted a third coat. Cracking appeared again so we sanded them down, washed the cracks (just in case sugar soap...