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I was just wondering if what you can see in this photo is damp and what I should do about it?
I've never noticed it before as the room is quite dark as curtains are always drawn, it is far more pronounced in the pictures than looking at the wall itself !!
I guess it must have been around a while as it has covered large sections of the walls in the room.
The wall in the picture is the corner at the front wall to the house. There has been some black specs of mould on the windows previously and along all the front wall to about 60cm (due I think to condensation and the fact the fitting was a DIY job) and also in the low wall corners which I have cleaned up with bleach/water mixture in the past. However, that was all very low (window frame itself excluded) and what can be seen in the picture starts from about 150cm from the floor. It does not feel like there is any damp in the areas with the
The property is a c.1900 terraced flat. The room itself is at the front of the house. We are in the process of getting new glazing.
The original grey plaster mixed with hairs is still under the current finishing plaster and the current paint job was completed 6 years ago.
The flat does have a damp course, unfortunately by cowboys some time ago which made little overall difference to the moisture levels but trashed my original skirting boards.
I was just wondering if what you can see in this photo is damp and what I should do about it?
I've never noticed it before as the room is quite dark as curtains are always drawn, it is far more pronounced in the pictures than looking at the wall itself !!
I guess it must have been around a while as it has covered large sections of the walls in the room. The wall in the picture is the corner at the front wall to the house. There has been some black specs of mould on the windows previously and along all the front wall to about 60cm (due I think to condensation and the fact the fitting was a DIY job) and also in the low wall corners which I have cleaned up with bleach/water mixture in the past. However, that was all very low (window frame itself excluded) and what can be seen in the picture starts from about 150cm from the floor. It does not feel like there is any damp in the areas with the
The property is a c.1900 terraced flat. The room itself is at the front of the house. We are in the process of getting new glazing.
The original grey plaster mixed with hairs is still under the current finishing plaster and the current paint job was completed 6 years ago.
The flat does have a damp course, unfortunately by cowboys some time ago which made little overall difference to the moisture levels but trashed my original skirting boards.
