Hello all,
I have a plastering problem I was hoping you could help me with.
I had a leak in my bathroom a few months ago. The bathroom was sorted out through insurance, the leak was stopped but the water had leaked into the cupboard next door and through to the living room wall next to that. I got the dehumidifiers in and after almost a month, the dampness in the living room wall/cupboard had gone down to below 20%.
I've now had my living room walls re-skimmed so I can get it redecorated but theres a big dark patch of plaster (about a foot high) at the foot of the wall where the dampness originally was!
The guys doing the plastering can't figure out how the dampness has come back - a damp reading has shown it is 100% damp and even worse, it's shown that the concrete floor below my laminate flooring is 50% damp. Apparently even my nearby kitchen floor is 50% damp.
Now there's only three things I can think of:
1. A special type of plaster or substance should have been applied to a wall that has just recovered from dampness.
or
2. The leak had got under the laminate flooring, spread around the house but the main source is under the living room wall hence the dark patch there (there were no other dark patches in the living room)
3. It's rising damp.
If it's rising damp I'm in trouble as the insurance won't help me. Can anyone tell what it might be? I'm at my wits end!!
Thanks
Rajan
I have a plastering problem I was hoping you could help me with.
I had a leak in my bathroom a few months ago. The bathroom was sorted out through insurance, the leak was stopped but the water had leaked into the cupboard next door and through to the living room wall next to that. I got the dehumidifiers in and after almost a month, the dampness in the living room wall/cupboard had gone down to below 20%.
I've now had my living room walls re-skimmed so I can get it redecorated but theres a big dark patch of plaster (about a foot high) at the foot of the wall where the dampness originally was!
The guys doing the plastering can't figure out how the dampness has come back - a damp reading has shown it is 100% damp and even worse, it's shown that the concrete floor below my laminate flooring is 50% damp. Apparently even my nearby kitchen floor is 50% damp.
Now there's only three things I can think of:
1. A special type of plaster or substance should have been applied to a wall that has just recovered from dampness.
or
2. The leak had got under the laminate flooring, spread around the house but the main source is under the living room wall hence the dark patch there (there were no other dark patches in the living room)
3. It's rising damp.
If it's rising damp I'm in trouble as the insurance won't help me. Can anyone tell what it might be? I'm at my wits end!!
Thanks
Rajan
