Hello,
I'm looking for some advice on what type of tradesman would be best to help on an issue I have in my property. Would massively appreciate any help given.
I have an upstairs room which has a roof terrace/balcony coming off it. In this room, the interior of the exterior wall has damp. The photo I have attached is the current state of this wall. Would note that it would not have naturally looked quite this bad... I decided to start going at it with a scraper when I was hoping that it was perhaps an old problem that I could paint over.
The damp doesn't appear to be coming from above (based on where the damp is) and I've observed the gutters when it's raining and can't see any leakage. I'm currently wondering whether it's caused by the fact the balcony wooden frame is attached to the wall and the balcony wooden slats are pretty much touching the wall. If it is, I could cut the balcony slats a bit with my jigsaw but obviously that doesnt stop the fact the joists are going into the wall. Apart from that, really not sure what the problem is. The render on the building itself doesn't sound hollow.
I only moved in 6 months ago and so I don't know how long the balcony has been in place. I know it was part of extension works at some point.
Photos attached. Happy to respond to any questions - I could really just use a point in the right direction. I'm a little hesitant to just contact a damp proofer because I would ideally like to treat the source of the problem rather than just inject the walls.
Thank you,
Matt
I'm looking for some advice on what type of tradesman would be best to help on an issue I have in my property. Would massively appreciate any help given.
I have an upstairs room which has a roof terrace/balcony coming off it. In this room, the interior of the exterior wall has damp. The photo I have attached is the current state of this wall. Would note that it would not have naturally looked quite this bad... I decided to start going at it with a scraper when I was hoping that it was perhaps an old problem that I could paint over.
The damp doesn't appear to be coming from above (based on where the damp is) and I've observed the gutters when it's raining and can't see any leakage. I'm currently wondering whether it's caused by the fact the balcony wooden frame is attached to the wall and the balcony wooden slats are pretty much touching the wall. If it is, I could cut the balcony slats a bit with my jigsaw but obviously that doesnt stop the fact the joists are going into the wall. Apart from that, really not sure what the problem is. The render on the building itself doesn't sound hollow.
I only moved in 6 months ago and so I don't know how long the balcony has been in place. I know it was part of extension works at some point.
Photos attached. Happy to respond to any questions - I could really just use a point in the right direction. I'm a little hesitant to just contact a damp proofer because I would ideally like to treat the source of the problem rather than just inject the walls.
Thank you,
Matt
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