Can anybody advise me please? About 4 or five months ago I had a room reskimmed over sound, solid plaster. About six weeks or so after plastering, when fully dried out I painted walls with three coats of a quality emulsion. Several weeks later I had a wall hung, flueless gas fire fitted directly onto the wall. The fire has a convector type grill on the top from which warm / hot air emanates. I did not turn the fire on until today, 5 months after the wall was skimmed. After about an hour I walked into the room to find that the plaster above the fire had bellied out, cracked and was falling off the wall in the area it was subjected to the warm air.
There were no instructions with the fire that some sort of heatshield should be fitted and the picture on the box displays the fire hung on what appears to be a plastered wall.
Can anybody tell me;
a) Should this have happened? It has never happened before when I have fitted central heating radiators over fresh plaster.
b) Has this happened as a result of a faulty mix or application of plaster?
c) What can be done to prevent it happening again if I have the wall reskimmed?
Appreciate your views.
Thanks
AlanFrank
There were no instructions with the fire that some sort of heatshield should be fitted and the picture on the box displays the fire hung on what appears to be a plastered wall.
Can anybody tell me;
a) Should this have happened? It has never happened before when I have fitted central heating radiators over fresh plaster.
b) Has this happened as a result of a faulty mix or application of plaster?
c) What can be done to prevent it happening again if I have the wall reskimmed?
Appreciate your views.
Thanks
AlanFrank