HI All
Hope someone can help - next doors house is rented and never did anything about a water leak in the bathroom and it has now penetrated the lounge wall in my house to leave salt deposits on the wall.
After alot of hard work and hassle apparently the leak got fixed and all was meant to be good, so I got a plasterer in to sort it, as far as I understand he scraped off all the loose paint and salty bits, primed it all green and then skimmed the whole wall and said it would take a while to dry out.
Anyway that was a good 6 months ago now and even after buying a quality de-humidifier the wall is still wet and not drying (infact if anything I'm sure its spreading along the wall at mid socket heightt??) It does have some dry bits which sound like plasterboard in the middle of block wall (maybe a previous repair?) Were talking about a section about 1sq/m
So any ideas if something wrong has happened or gone wrong, there is no damage to skirting or wooden floors, the house was built in the mid-80s. I'm thinking has the leak not been fixed (which means another load of hard work getting hold of the landlord which will get me angry!!! ) should it of fully dried before plastered butr surely this would of taken ages but surely still dry now with plaster over it???
I just need some advice and help - anyone to shed any light on this???
Thanks
Hope someone can help - next doors house is rented and never did anything about a water leak in the bathroom and it has now penetrated the lounge wall in my house to leave salt deposits on the wall.
After alot of hard work and hassle apparently the leak got fixed and all was meant to be good, so I got a plasterer in to sort it, as far as I understand he scraped off all the loose paint and salty bits, primed it all green and then skimmed the whole wall and said it would take a while to dry out.
Anyway that was a good 6 months ago now and even after buying a quality de-humidifier the wall is still wet and not drying (infact if anything I'm sure its spreading along the wall at mid socket heightt??) It does have some dry bits which sound like plasterboard in the middle of block wall (maybe a previous repair?) Were talking about a section about 1sq/m
So any ideas if something wrong has happened or gone wrong, there is no damage to skirting or wooden floors, the house was built in the mid-80s. I'm thinking has the leak not been fixed (which means another load of hard work getting hold of the landlord which will get me angry!!! ) should it of fully dried before plastered butr surely this would of taken ages but surely still dry now with plaster over it???
I just need some advice and help - anyone to shed any light on this???
Thanks