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Big Tone
My life just gets worse and worse...
My lean-to flooded the other day so after ripping up the weird carpet thing, and the lino underneath that old man Bloggs stuck down a million years ago, I’ve got a couple of questions...
I’m struggling, in this cold wet weather, to dry it out. I can’t afford a dehumidifier and don’t know how well they work anyway. I do have a portable air conditioner but the condenser part doesn’t kick-in unless the room is warmer than 18 degrees. (It’s currently about 10 deg). I thought of hiring an industrial heater but again I think that would be prohibitively expensive.
The flooring couldn’t be made of worse stuff; unprotected chipboard, aka blotting paper. So I’d be very interested to know what others have done in these circumstances? I have been using a fan heater which is taking forever and probably costing as much as new boards to run. I think I am going to get away with not replacing them although I won’t know for sure until they’re completely dry. They are curling a bit at the edges and one or two other places but maybe over time it’ll flatten down, I hope.
My second question is what would you do or use to help protect the flooring in the event of another flood or would you just put soft waterproof flooring over the top and seal all edges? I feel, given what’s happening in this country in recent years with the floods, it may be of use to lots of other people too.
Any advice is most welcome please. Oh, here’s a picture. It was absolutely sodden two days ago; the whole lot looked dark brown with water, as you can imagine. I think I added a bit more with my tears. Actually, you can tell how it must have looked from the edges in the pic. The pic is a bit deceptive, even the dry looking areas are still damp; you can smell the dampness filling the air as you walk in.
My lean-to flooded the other day so after ripping up the weird carpet thing, and the lino underneath that old man Bloggs stuck down a million years ago, I’ve got a couple of questions...
I’m struggling, in this cold wet weather, to dry it out. I can’t afford a dehumidifier and don’t know how well they work anyway. I do have a portable air conditioner but the condenser part doesn’t kick-in unless the room is warmer than 18 degrees. (It’s currently about 10 deg). I thought of hiring an industrial heater but again I think that would be prohibitively expensive.
The flooring couldn’t be made of worse stuff; unprotected chipboard, aka blotting paper. So I’d be very interested to know what others have done in these circumstances? I have been using a fan heater which is taking forever and probably costing as much as new boards to run. I think I am going to get away with not replacing them although I won’t know for sure until they’re completely dry. They are curling a bit at the edges and one or two other places but maybe over time it’ll flatten down, I hope.
My second question is what would you do or use to help protect the flooring in the event of another flood or would you just put soft waterproof flooring over the top and seal all edges? I feel, given what’s happening in this country in recent years with the floods, it may be of use to lots of other people too.
Any advice is most welcome please. Oh, here’s a picture. It was absolutely sodden two days ago; the whole lot looked dark brown with water, as you can imagine. I think I added a bit more with my tears. Actually, you can tell how it must have looked from the edges in the pic. The pic is a bit deceptive, even the dry looking areas are still damp; you can smell the dampness filling the air as you walk in.