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Help! What is causing this blown plaster?!

steviecooke · 2022-04-26 14:59:50

Hi everyone, We have a problem with some water or moisture getting in from somewhere and blowing the plaster in our wall. It's not a lot of water, as this has been gradually getting worse over the course of a year (you can see the patch job where we did a quick repair on some blown plaster to see if something had fixed the…

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stuart45 Posts: 5,062 Forumite

29 April 2022 at 6:58PM

That's the problem with solid walls. In theory they are completely solid, but in practice some of the joints will be partially filled. This allows.moisture to track some way from it's source.

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