Eh?Did your daughter not have a structural engineer oversee the build on behalf of the mortgage company? (Normal practice).
Eh?Did your daughter not have a structural engineer oversee the build on behalf of the mortgage company? (Normal practice).
Eh?
I've not heard that would be the case TBH, When I spoke to my Architect friend, he said that major builders usually have an understanding with the NHBC, In which they only check 1/25 Properties to make sure that they have followed strict guidelines before the 10-Year Warranty is signed Off...But don't Quote me on that....But as far as I know, no Structural Engineer was Involved & I never heard her mention it...Interesting
I don't agree with you that airtightness reduces the risk of high humidity, quite the reverse, airtightness can increase the risk of high humidity..... new build houses are designed to by somewhat airtight and do not suffer high humidity anything like as well as the traditional house build. Couple this with, i imagine, zero instruction from the house builder as to how to operate the house correctly and you have multiple condensation issues in many parts of the house.
Maybe a stupid question, but you have checked that the extractor vent from the bathroom does actually connect to the outside? The reason I ask is because when we bought a new build a good few years ago, we had condensation in the loft and we found the pipe connecting extractor to installed soffit vent wasn't actually connected at both ends and was underneath the insulation that had been laid on top. Reconnected, and the problem went away....
damp air entering from outside
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