Are they cracked? Water damaged? Buckling or bulging? Any of these could be signs that there's trouble in the wall itself, and throwing an extra coat of paint on a problem isn't going to solve it.
When Jean Pallant was told her one-of-a-kind coat had turned up in a donation bag at the Oxfam shop in Mill Hill, London, she was "very excited". Shop manager Marina Ikey-Botchway said she could ...