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Today my wife noticed salty looking tide marks in the walk in cupboard, then went under the stairs to retrieve Christmas items and there was a dripping leak from the piping there. This meant the concrete floor is wet. Could that have then run in to the underlay under our laminate would affect...

To do that I assume you have to make sure no air can get underneath?

None at all, it's not connected to anything. Can you even get rising damp in hollow stud walls?

My wife says the walls still feel damp. Oddly there is no mould on our walls shared with neighbours even where there is furniture against the wall. The only difference is these walls are brick whereas internal walls are concrete blocks or partitions. Though the external wall is of course brick.

No it's an internal wall and I'm reasonably sure it's a stud wall.

My wife sent me another photo. The is where an IKEA play kitchen was (attached). The mould is almost a shadow of the lower part of the play kitchen even though there would have been a skirting board sized gap.

Could it be because the mould formed a few years ago when the house was shut up. Then it grew in to the lining paper and I never got rid of it completely and so some damp and it's grown back? Does anybody know of a good decorator in NW London?

Good idea, thanks.

It was just a tap under the stairs in an extra pipe installed to have water available in the garden. It got knocked and dripped slowly for a while. The mould from that event was just because there were lots of damp items left in a sealed house for 2 weeks. There is no water source near that...

Nope.

There are no pipes anywhere near due to the concrete floor and nothing in the wall behind. Also it has appeared in 3 different places in the room but not in between, only where the wall could not breathe. Our dehumidifier rarely stops with or without washing in the colder months, though it's...

My wife said the wall was wet and looks damp. I think it is a papered partition wall and all the mould is only where there has been no circulation months due to books and what not being pushed right up against it. Also the external wall under the window still gets noticably damp. There is no...

I agree, though not drying washing indoors is often not possible. Is it possible this could be anything other than condensation?

We have a house built in the late 1970s. It is an ex-council house with cavity brick walls on the outside that have been filled. Internally most walls are made of concrete blocks and some stud walls. I think there is a concrete floor underneath the under the fake plastic floorboards. Three or...

No, I don't know but the main crack was filled and painted within the last few years, and it is possibly wider than it looks due to having been filled, but it is not really getting any wider, or if it is, very slowly.

Unfortunately I don't know. This was done before we bought the place, and I'd not know how to tell. Can I somehow check if it will help?

Thank you very much for the reply. There is a large wide tree about 6 or 7 metres from the front of the house, and actually the drain cover outside this neighbours house was bubbling a couple of weeks ago. But this is the only time we have seen that happen. The windows don’t stick, but there...

Yes, images would help ;o) Please do have a look and let me have any opinions. Thank you. Here they are. They are full size images so zoom away. This is the front elevation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6D66Y0MUnLxMXpTa3FyTGVNcG8/edit?usp=sharingl This shows where the problem...

Hello, We could do with some advice please. We bought our house 18 months ago. It is a late 1970s terrace property constructed of brick on a cement base. It is in a London clay area. Soon after we moved in we noticed quite a long crack (probably more than a foot) in the plaster in the...