in the lounge, I can see the outline of the concrete blocks behind the paintwork. Is this normal?
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Best Answer
There's nothing wrong with simply leaving the cinder block surface and painting it. It will look like painted cinder blocks.
It has a few advantages, it's tough, easier to clean, and much, much, much, much easier to clean up after a flood.
Covering that up with plaster or drywall is just a matter of aesthetics. It's not like it's bad architecture, it's just a different design choice (of course the hooty-tooty crowd consider it more lowbrow, but whatever.)
If someone aimed to do that, and missed, then yeah, that's bad work.