Hi,
Can anybody help please? I stripped the walls of wallpaper for the first time since moving here ( 6 years ) . The house is 50 years old.
The house was unoccupied around 10 years ago when water tanks leaked and soaked the inside of the house. I have checked the walls with a damp meter which show two areas of wall in the room with slight damp ( clicking on the machine, but no fast clicking or buzzing ) .
I can't find any other sign of dry rot atm ( though have only checked the windowsill & skirting board ) the windowsill has some wet rot in a corner and this damp ingress will have to be sorted anyway.
......The Plaster has these trails about as if somebopdies gouged some runs with metal blade, but as you can see from the photos, this can't be as the gouges arn't complete, could it be dry rot 'roots' spreading out?
If not what could they be?
( btw, Ive looked at http://www.buildingpreservation.com/Dry rot.htm )
Many thanks in advance
Andy
Can anybody help please? I stripped the walls of wallpaper for the first time since moving here ( 6 years ) . The house is 50 years old.
The house was unoccupied around 10 years ago when water tanks leaked and soaked the inside of the house. I have checked the walls with a damp meter which show two areas of wall in the room with slight damp ( clicking on the machine, but no fast clicking or buzzing ) .
I can't find any other sign of dry rot atm ( though have only checked the windowsill & skirting board ) the windowsill has some wet rot in a corner and this damp ingress will have to be sorted anyway.
......The Plaster has these trails about as if somebopdies gouged some runs with metal blade, but as you can see from the photos, this can't be as the gouges arn't complete, could it be dry rot 'roots' spreading out?
If not what could they be?
( btw, Ive looked at http://www.buildingpreservation.com/Dry rot.htm )
Many thanks in advance
Andy