Hi,
I moved into my new home about 4 months ago. It is an upside down house (The garage and kitchen are on the top floor with the bathroom and bedrooms on the bottom floor)
After about a month I noticed green mould growing on the wardrobe and chest of drawers in the spare bedroom. The spare bedroom is below the garage and has 3 outside walls to it (1 to the side of the property and the other 2 are under ground).
I immediately bought a dehumidifier but it didnt seem to do much good and I quickly noticed a musty smell. I have been rubbing the furniture down with mould killer for the last few weeks and that seemed to be doing some good. However I noticed this weekend that one of the corners of the bedroom seemed damp so I moved out every dit of furniture that was up against a wall and everything was covered in mould (furniture, skirting board, walls, carpet etc).
I cleaned everything up and even pulled the wallpaper off to see if the mould was in the plaster (which it doesn't seem to be). I then decided to have a look under the floorboards. The floor is damp but not soaking wet but the walls are wet (especially the ones that are totally underground). I also noticed the floorboard that is directly under the damp corner is wet and the support beam is also wet. It is as if the wet walls have risen up to the beam and is starting to soak the beam and floorboard. The only other thing i noticed was the side of the floorboards that are facing the ground have a brown mould on them.
Can anyone tell me the way forward regarding the damp and more importantly the green mould?
Thanks for reading, apologies it was long winded but I wanted to get everything down.
I moved into my new home about 4 months ago. It is an upside down house (The garage and kitchen are on the top floor with the bathroom and bedrooms on the bottom floor)
After about a month I noticed green mould growing on the wardrobe and chest of drawers in the spare bedroom. The spare bedroom is below the garage and has 3 outside walls to it (1 to the side of the property and the other 2 are under ground).
I immediately bought a dehumidifier but it didnt seem to do much good and I quickly noticed a musty smell. I have been rubbing the furniture down with mould killer for the last few weeks and that seemed to be doing some good. However I noticed this weekend that one of the corners of the bedroom seemed damp so I moved out every dit of furniture that was up against a wall and everything was covered in mould (furniture, skirting board, walls, carpet etc).
I cleaned everything up and even pulled the wallpaper off to see if the mould was in the plaster (which it doesn't seem to be). I then decided to have a look under the floorboards. The floor is damp but not soaking wet but the walls are wet (especially the ones that are totally underground). I also noticed the floorboard that is directly under the damp corner is wet and the support beam is also wet. It is as if the wet walls have risen up to the beam and is starting to soak the beam and floorboard. The only other thing i noticed was the side of the floorboards that are facing the ground have a brown mould on them.
Can anyone tell me the way forward regarding the damp and more importantly the green mould?
Thanks for reading, apologies it was long winded but I wanted to get everything down.
