Recent content by Merrimak

Yes, understand that mate but bearing in mind there used to be a fitted wardrobe with a very bad condensation problem enclosing this area, would this have caused the wooden plugs to rot? i dont have any other problem areas apart from this one.

update well, after two months there was no sign of the damp patches drying out, so this weekend i decided to delve deeper into the problem i have hacked off all the render where the patches are and discovered that behind each damp patch there were rotten damp wooden skirting board plugs...

gonna pull some floorboards up at weekend and have a look down there also going to unblock fire place and put a grill in other side of the wall is the hallway the walls are red brick lined with mortar, the dark that you can see is what i can only describe as caked on mouldy substance...

hows this mate? not too well up on this file sharing lark! this is the area that was covered by the fitted wardrobe, all the other walls are fine! http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o258/merrimak/DSC00304.jpg http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o258/merrimak/DSC00303.jpg

Still no sign of it drying out! http://www.filefactory.com/file/c66d8f/ http://www.filefactory.com/file/aac420/

Cheers JohnD Might just have to do that!

yes yes

Thanks JohnD, No it's not an external wall, although one end of the wall leads to an external wall next to the bay window, on the other side of the wall is the hallway, pretty sure there are no leaks too, i did notice however that the inside of the wardrobe was lined with that polystyrene on...

Thanks woody, the floor is wooden and the wall is not external, forgot to mention before but a few days ago i put my dehumidifier in front of the wall to give some air flow over the area, it seemed to do the trick at first but approx 24 hours later the patches reappeared! theres a good 6...

Hi Guys, wonder if anyone can shed any light on this, Moved into a ground floor flat of a mid terraced 1910 property about 6 months ago, a few weeks ago i decided to re decorate the main bedroom which involved dismantling a rather unsightly fitted wardrobe wich had sliding doors and went the...

hi, Have you tried visiting their web site? you should be able to download it from there!

Thanks very much for clearing that up up fellas, much appreciated.

Hi, I am installing a couple of wall lights beside the chimney breast, one each side, I'm using FCU's connecting them to the ring mains sockets and making a couple of spurs from them, I'm also using 1mm2 cable from the FCU's to the light fittings, what i'm not too sure about though is do i...