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This is the area in downstairs reception room by window/front of house

Hi yes I mean timbers Bit limited with only internet on my phone so not able to scan stuff here. Can give descriptions and post more photos to the album I creatEd. Have contacted surveyor again also. Not sure if I should contact a timber specialist instead though?

I've added some more photos of the growth under the floorboard here: http://www.diynot.com/network/Charlottemclaughlin/albums/

Hi footprints Yeah I posted about the floor in the flooring forum. Not sure how I merge the two posts. Basically before we bought house we had one general building survey and one structural engineer survey. When we bought house we had 2 damp/timber surveys, and carried out work as recommended...

Thanks jelly Kat!! Yes I think it is prob some kind of mould and was wondering if anyone had ever seen anything like this before and what on earth we do with it? So depressing considering we thought we'd dealt with all the structural and damp issues and now at decorating stage. Obviously...

Thanks jelly Kat!! Yes I think it is prob some kind of mould and was wondering if anyone had ever seen anything like this before and what on earth we do with it? So depressing considering we thought we'd dealt with all the structural and damp issues and now at decorating stage. Obviously...

Okay thanks john, that's helpful. We can def add more sub floor air bricks. How do we treat the dry rot though? Do we need to pull up all tubers downstairs, ? Shoddy builder has just replaced all the broken ones and sanded them down. New skirting down too and we're in process of painting walls...

They were obstructed previously though and before we replaced them.

Hi john I replied in last post re air bricks. They are now all replaced and not obstructed. 1 sub floor in front of house and 1 sub floor in back of house.

Hi yeah I did that and made an album , but was wondering if there was any way I can put the photos into this post but it appears not. You should be able to access the album which has 2 photos in it. Any advice re what these weird weblike growths are and how to treat them would be very...

We had 2 surveys in march before bought house. And they said we had damp issues. Then had 2 specific damp surveys and neither said anything about dry rot. There was laminate of the flooring at that time though. Though you could def see the spots of black mould or condensation around the chimney...

Hello there. I was about to start varnishing newly sanded floorboards today and discovered a really soft and basically dead bit of floorboard in downstairs reception near to the window (this room has had damp issues). I broke a bit of floor off (it breaks very easily) and underneath was this...

Nope it hasn't worked. If you can't see the album I made on here pls give me an address I can email the pics to?