Oh Wrath Of All Knowledge - nails pushing out plaster

A foo yares agoo, we done an extension. All well and good but now we are seeing little bumps in the wall and ceiling. These are regularly spaced and apparently caused by the wrong kind of nails being used - apparently they should have used nails treated in some way to prevent this very thing (caused by the nails shrinking and growing due to temperature changes, I should think).

Builders long gone of course.

There is no USB to do a smell up and I've already asked Mary. Other than push the hole out, fill with Polyfilla and paint over it, with the expectation of having to rinse and repeat every couple of years, is there anything I can do to fix this more permanently (other than tear it all down and rebuild it, which clearly isn't going to happen)?

Posted By: Old Man on June 2nd 2015 at 10:23:41

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Oh Wrath Of All Knowledge - nails pushing out plaster (General Chat) - Old Man, Jun 2, 10:23:41
- its because its nailed and not scree, the timber shrinks but the nail does not, if screwed (n/m) (General Chat) - White Van Man, Jun 2, 21:02:21
- I think you will have to move.....can't see any way round it (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Jun 2, 17:23:08
- Pretend you can't see them (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Jun 2, 11:35:37
  - paint all your light bulbs matt black (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 2, 11:37:45
    - Put some pictures up. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 2, 11:42:01
      - ...on the ceiling? (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Man, Jun 2, 11:42:49
        
        like in the dentists (n/m) (General Chat) - Pixelman, Jun 2, 11:45:22
        
        he could *retrain to be a dentist and thus turn a negative into a double positive (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 2, 11:51:36
        
        Mirrors? (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jun 2, 11:43:29
        
        Don't read it. (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Man, Jun 2, 11:45:46
        
        kink e (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 2, 11:45:08
- hammer the fuckers right back up, polly filler, sand down, re-paint (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 2, 11:34:09
  - Are you mental? If he hammers them in and fills he's going to draw out the embedded iron (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, Jun 2, 11:41:51
    - ok, sling an armstrong ceiling up (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 2, 11:47:27
      - Aye aye, Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen's had a huff off a wet stencil (n/m) (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, Jun 2, 11:51:51
        
        did you just pooh pooh my perfect solution? (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 2, 11:54:38
        
        Your solution is the structural equivalent of tidying your room by putting everything (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, Jun 2, 11:57:07
  - Sounds the plan to go with :-) (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Man, Jun 2, 11:41:05
    - great, enjoy the rest of your amazing life (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 2, 11:44:15
- Lets get down to brass tacks (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, Jun 2, 11:22:31
- On a site, there's someone employed to go round and cover these things up (General Chat) - pants, Jun 2, 10:30:51
- I have exactly the same problem with an extension built a few years ago (General Chat) - BSE Canary, Jun 2, 10:30:29
  - I'd say it's a follow up job they haven't been arsed to do unless you push them (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Jun 2, 10:31:26
    - In hindsight I should of got quotes for the extension to be built to the same (General Chat) - BSE Canary, Jun 2, 10:39:11
      - You'll never get it right with building work (General Chat) - pants, Jun 2, 11:13:44

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