Recent content by mw96472

Any comments or suggestions on this please? Cheers Michael

Thanks dann09 - you might be right. I know that a previous owner extended the utility room by moving the wall separating the utility room and garage to make the garage more narrow and the utility room wider. By doing so they probably needed to lower the floor in the utility room to bring it...

Thanks everyone - bought some "Damp Proof Membrane Liquid 5L" (http://www.wickes.co.uk/damp-proof-membrane-liquid-5l/invt/241217/) today from Wickes. Is it a good idea to paint any exposed sides of the walls as well or should I just stick to the floor? It looks like (see pictures in my 2nd...

I've uploaded some more pictures to show the 2nd patch and its location in relation to the strange patch I reported initially. As I said, both have been there for years and not changed: BTW, the skirting board under the 2nd patch doesn't show the rust mark anymore as I had cleaned it...

both strange patches

2nd strange patch

Thanks damn09 - there is definitely no membrane under the floor; the membrane is only under the bricks in the wall. Under the floor is just that thin blue layer. The bitumen is just where the pipes were and there was no membrane hidden in there. I assume the blue layer is the DPC under the...

I didn't have time last night. BTW, when I said in my previous post that I had taken the skirting board off from a different wall I should have mentioned that I did this many years ago :-)

Do you mean you can't see any signs of damp or the arrow?

I haven't taken the skirting board off but it looks and sounds (when tapping it) solid; I did take the skirting board off from another wall in this room which also had the rusty nails and a similar patch; the skirting was not mouldy at all. I know there are a lot of pipes in that wall...

There is no light in the room so I tried to take some pictures with my camera using its flashlight: The blue stuff looks like paint as it's a very thin layer and it's stuck to the ground; you can also see some blue on the black membrane which further suggests that it was...

showing channel for radiator pipes along the facing wall including the old radiator pipes

showing channel for radiator pipes along the facing wall including the old radiator pipes

showing channel for radiator pipes along the facing wall and channel for speaker cables along and in the wall on the right; the T-shaped channel is for the radiator pipes

showing channel for radiator pipes along the facing wall and channel for speaker cables along and in the wall on the right; the T-shaped channel is for the radiator pipes