Hi,
I bought an old bungalow. I have 2 ground level bedrooms. I stripped the paper in the first room to replaster, room ok, there must have been a chimney in the corner as there is cement on the wall and old tiles on the floor in the corner.
In the second room just behind there is wall paper that I don't want to take away but I feel damp behind. It is in the corner of the room where there must have been also a chimney because I can see that the wall is irregular under the paper and there are also old tiles on the floor under the carpet. These 2 chimneys were next to each other, one wall is damp but not the other.
I went outside and saw at 80cm of the floor level, 2 old metallic brick vents next to each other, according to my measure one gives in one bedroom, the other in the other bedroom. These must have been put in place for the chimneys purpose.
Could the humidity in my wall come from one of these vents? Why one room would be humid and not the other one? Should we block them with cement to stop the humidity? There are no more chimney in the roof anyway.
Also the outside wall where are located the vents is hardly touched by rain as the neighbourg's house in only a meter away, so well protected.
Thanks to tell me what you think?
Letty
I bought an old bungalow. I have 2 ground level bedrooms. I stripped the paper in the first room to replaster, room ok, there must have been a chimney in the corner as there is cement on the wall and old tiles on the floor in the corner.
In the second room just behind there is wall paper that I don't want to take away but I feel damp behind. It is in the corner of the room where there must have been also a chimney because I can see that the wall is irregular under the paper and there are also old tiles on the floor under the carpet. These 2 chimneys were next to each other, one wall is damp but not the other.
I went outside and saw at 80cm of the floor level, 2 old metallic brick vents next to each other, according to my measure one gives in one bedroom, the other in the other bedroom. These must have been put in place for the chimneys purpose.
Could the humidity in my wall come from one of these vents? Why one room would be humid and not the other one? Should we block them with cement to stop the humidity? There are no more chimney in the roof anyway.
Also the outside wall where are located the vents is hardly touched by rain as the neighbourg's house in only a meter away, so well protected.
Thanks to tell me what you think?
Letty