Hi,
We recently moved into a 3 bed semi as a temporary place, 1930's house with solid walls, and I have noticed that the box room suffers from severe damp issues.
This is the room upstairs to the side elevation. Few facts, we have the heating on all day, and controlled by the thermostat, set at 21. This particular room has a vent, which the previous occupiers blocked off, I noticed this 2 weeks ago, replaced the vent with a hit & miss one and left it open permanently. I must admit the window is not left open most of the week, it also doesnt have a tricke vent, but the door is always open.
Please see the areas in red from the exterior.
The mould was growing agressively by the corner of the room facing outside, well, 2 walls in the room face outside, one on the front elevation and hte other on the side elevation. Its by the lower corner, about 1m from the ground that is worst affected. I cleaned it out 2 weeks ago with water & bleach, now its back in full force.
The room does not have a radiator, but the door is always opened to allow for circulation of heat, all the other rooms have radiators and also there is a radiator by the staircase landing.
The rooms facing the road suffer from condensation around the window areas.
I am not sure what to do here.
We recently moved into a 3 bed semi as a temporary place, 1930's house with solid walls, and I have noticed that the box room suffers from severe damp issues.
This is the room upstairs to the side elevation. Few facts, we have the heating on all day, and controlled by the thermostat, set at 21. This particular room has a vent, which the previous occupiers blocked off, I noticed this 2 weeks ago, replaced the vent with a hit & miss one and left it open permanently. I must admit the window is not left open most of the week, it also doesnt have a tricke vent, but the door is always open.
Please see the areas in red from the exterior.
The mould was growing agressively by the corner of the room facing outside, well, 2 walls in the room face outside, one on the front elevation and hte other on the side elevation. Its by the lower corner, about 1m from the ground that is worst affected. I cleaned it out 2 weeks ago with water & bleach, now its back in full force.
The room does not have a radiator, but the door is always opened to allow for circulation of heat, all the other rooms have radiators and also there is a radiator by the staircase landing.
The rooms facing the road suffer from condensation around the window areas.
I am not sure what to do here.