diff --git a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/ChronicleMapBuilder.java b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/ChronicleMapBuilder.java
index d58a16682..d1a3ac3ae 100755
--- a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/ChronicleMapBuilder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/ChronicleMapBuilder.java
@@ -1332,6 +1332,11 @@ public final class ChronicleMapBuilder<K, V> implements Cloneable,
                             (VanillaChronicleMap<K, ?, ?, V, ?, ?>) xStream.fromXML(ois);
                     map.headerSize = roundUpMapHeaderSize(fis.getChannel().position());
                     map.createMappedStoreAndSegments(file);
+                    // This is needed to property initialize key and value serialization builders,
+                    // which are later used in replication
+                    // TODO don't use SerializationBuilders in replication, extract marshallers
+                    // needed to transmit to stateless clients directly from map instance
+                    preMapConstruction(singleHashReplication != null || channel != null);
                     return establishReplication(map, singleHashReplication, channel);
                 }
             }
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/Replicators.java b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/Replicators.java
index eacc09952..c58dd9590 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/Replicators.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/Replicators.java
@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ final class Replicators {
 
                 TcpTransportAndNetworkConfig tcpConfig = replication.tcpTransportAndNetwork();
 
-                TcpReplicator.StatelessClientParameters statelessClientParameters = new TcpReplicator.StatelessClientParameters(
+                TcpReplicator.StatelessClientParameters statelessClientParameters =
+                        new TcpReplicator.StatelessClientParameters(
                         (VanillaChronicleMap) chronicleMap,
                         builder.keyBuilder,
                         builder.valueBuilder);
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/TcpReplicator.java b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/TcpReplicator.java
index 18e1c245c..01bfb80aa 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/TcpReplicator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/TcpReplicator.java
@@ -1456,6 +1456,8 @@ class StatelessServerConnector<K, V> {
 
     @NotNull
     private final VanillaChronicleMap<K, ?, ?, V, ?, ?> map;
+    private final SerializationBuilder<K> keySerializationBuilder;
+    private final SerializationBuilder<V> valueSerializationBuilder;
     private final int tcpBufferSize;
 
 
@@ -1466,6 +1468,8 @@ class StatelessServerConnector<K, V> {
             final SerializationBuilder<V> valueSerializationBuilder) {
         this.tcpBufferSize = tcpBufferSize;
 
+        this.keySerializationBuilder = keySerializationBuilder;
+        this.valueSerializationBuilder = valueSerializationBuilder;
         keyReaderWithSize = new ReaderWithSize<>(keySerializationBuilder);
         keyWriterWithSize = new WriterWithSize<>(keySerializationBuilder, bufferResizer);
         valueReaderWithSize = new ReaderWithSize<>(valueSerializationBuilder);
@@ -1575,10 +1579,10 @@ class StatelessServerConnector<K, V> {
                 return putMapped(reader, writer, sizeLocation);
 
             case KEY_BUILDER:
-                return writeBuilder(writer, sizeLocation, map.keyBuilder);
+                return writeBuilder(writer, sizeLocation, keySerializationBuilder);
 
             case VALUE_BUILDER:
-                return writeBuilder(writer, sizeLocation, map.valueBuilder);
+                return writeBuilder(writer, sizeLocation, valueSerializationBuilder);
 
             default:
                 throw new IllegalStateException("unsupported event=" + event);
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/VanillaChronicleMap.java b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/VanillaChronicleMap.java
index f5118ab37..a4dc7b882 100755
--- a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/VanillaChronicleMap.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/VanillaChronicleMap.java
@@ -111,13 +111,10 @@ class VanillaChronicleMap<K, KI, MKI extends MetaBytesInterop<K, ? super KI>,
     transient BytesStore ms;
     transient long headerSize;
     transient Set<Map.Entry<K, V>> entrySet;
-    transient final SerializationBuilder<K> keyBuilder;
-    transient final SerializationBuilder<V> valueBuilder;
-
 
     public VanillaChronicleMap(ChronicleMapBuilder<K, V> builder) throws IOException {
 
-        keyBuilder = builder.keyBuilder;
+        SerializationBuilder<K> keyBuilder = builder.keyBuilder;
         kClass = keyBuilder.eClass;
         keySizeMarshaller = keyBuilder.sizeMarshaller();
         originalKeyReader = keyBuilder.reader();
@@ -129,7 +126,7 @@ class VanillaChronicleMap<K, KI, MKI extends MetaBytesInterop<K, ? super KI>,
         originalMetaKeyInterop = (MKI) keyBuilder.metaInterop();
         metaKeyInteropProvider = (MetaProvider<K, KI, MKI>) keyBuilder.metaInteropProvider();
 
-        valueBuilder = builder.valueBuilder;
+        SerializationBuilder<V> valueBuilder = builder.valueBuilder;
         vClass = valueBuilder.eClass;
         if (vClass.getName().endsWith("$$Native")) {
             nativeValueClass = vClass;
diff --git a/src/test/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/ChronicleMapTest.java b/src/test/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/ChronicleMapTest.java
index f4591ad3f..04fb12c05 100755
--- a/src/test/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/ChronicleMapTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/ChronicleMapTest.java
@@ -1695,7 +1695,6 @@ public class ChronicleMapTest {
     }
 
 
-    @Ignore("HCOLL-283 run it twice with the same filename it fails")
     @Test
     public void testByteArrayKeySizeBySample() throws IOException {
         TcpTransportAndNetworkConfig serverConfig = TcpTransportAndNetworkConfig.of(8877)
@@ -1703,7 +1702,6 @@ public class ChronicleMapTest {
 
         File mapFile = getPersistenceFile();
 
-
         // this test only appear to fail when we reuse the mapFile
         for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
 
@@ -1712,7 +1710,8 @@ public class ChronicleMapTest {
                     .constantKeySizeBySample(new byte[14])
                     .createPersistedTo(mapFile)) {
 
-                try (ChronicleMap<byte[], byte[][]> map2 = ChronicleMapBuilder.of(byte[].class, byte[][].class)
+                try (ChronicleMap<byte[], byte[][]> map2 = ChronicleMapBuilder
+                        .of(byte[].class, byte[][].class)
                         .constantKeySizeBySample(new byte[14])
                         .statelessClient(new InetSocketAddress("localhost", 8877))
                         .create()) {