We were trying to make our bedroom better insulated, and hopefully less damp. I pulled the bed away from the wall and there's black damp up wall and all the staples in the headboard have rusted (id like to say from severe scuffing banging against the wall but no)
I am running a dehumidifier in the room and in the morning it's reading 80% dropping to about 50% after a few hours.
The house is an old L shaped bungalow this is the end room. There are no air bricks or vents in the room but has new double glazing throughout.
The current insulation is v poor disintegrated rockwool cross lined with 150mm topup rockwool.
I had planned to remove the old plasterboard (foam based sagging stuff) cut 100mm celotex into the joists and leave the cross lined topupup there. Any thoughts advice appreciated, my builder mate said be careful of cold spots doing this.
Ive noticed all the screws in the ceiling under the plasterboard have black spots too. Any advice on how i rid the room of damp. I think we had cavity wall insulation here as when i cut in the french doors in our bedroom the cavity wall had something like foam insulation but it was so weak and crumbly it fell apart as i touched it.
Thankyou in advance for any advice here. (i would pay people to do most of this but i am poor!)
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I am running a dehumidifier in the room and in the morning it's reading 80% dropping to about 50% after a few hours.
The house is an old L shaped bungalow this is the end room. There are no air bricks or vents in the room but has new double glazing throughout.
The current insulation is v poor disintegrated rockwool cross lined with 150mm topup rockwool.
I had planned to remove the old plasterboard (foam based sagging stuff) cut 100mm celotex into the joists and leave the cross lined topupup there. Any thoughts advice appreciated, my builder mate said be careful of cold spots doing this.
Ive noticed all the screws in the ceiling under the plasterboard have black spots too. Any advice on how i rid the room of damp. I think we had cavity wall insulation here as when i cut in the french doors in our bedroom the cavity wall had something like foam insulation but it was so weak and crumbly it fell apart as i touched it.
Thankyou in advance for any advice here. (i would pay people to do most of this but i am poor!)
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