Recent content by Don9

The meter gap I mentioned is between the outside rock wall which is almost always damp and the back wall of the kitchen. I found a pic of the kitchen wall as it was being built. Id forgotten there was any insulation there. The gap where the insulation is isnt more than a couple centimeters...

The humidity has been ridiculously high since I moved here. About a week and a half after I started moving things over, I noticed the salt leaching through my cardboard sea salt container. The salt was wet. Since then the kitchen has been stripped down to the stone, re plastered and the new...

There is a cavity behind that wall. It was found when removing the old kitchen counters \ cupboards. The wall had to be added back as the kitchen counters \ cupboards had already been cut to shape and the stone wall behind isnt straight. Like your house, the stone wall is solid brick, about a...

Cool. Any idea on how much fitting the extractor pipe will cost? The bottom cupboards have holes in the back for plugs and the smell is coming through there. The house was built in 1902.

I dont think there are any pipes behind the wall. Its more to do with the high humidity in the area and lack of air circulation in the cavity. There is frequently condensation in the kitchen on the tiles \ fridge in the mornings. Less than a meter behind the problem wall is rock wall that is...

Hi Guys, I bought a 1900's house and had a Wren kitchen installed. One wall had a fake wall added to straighten out the back wall. Recently I've noticed a musty\moldy smell coming from the cupboards along that wall. I also noticed that the extractor fan does not extract, it just recirculates...