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I've had a brief look around on here and have seena couple of threads possibly relevant to my problem, but want to start a new one so I can give you the facts without confusing them with a nother user.
I bought a house 18 months ago. The lender wanted withold £1k due to some damp traces, which they then waivered as with the house being 100 years old they said it was nothing unusual.
Its a mid terrace house with the rear of the building facing South. In the third bedroom upstairs (which was formerly a bathroom) in the corner of the room, damp has been appearing for the last couple of months. This bedroom is South facing if that makes any difference! (its also the outer wall)
We have the heating on often enough during the winter and don't have a tumble dryer, so the heating is used to dry clothes too. There are no air bricks/vents in that room. The radiator is on an internal wall that backs on to the neighbours. If I moved the radiator, to underneath the window (much nearer the damp patches) would that eradicate the problem? If not are we just talking general condensation down to 'lifestyle' as someone else mentoned in a different thread? Or could the brick work outside need repointing? There doesn't appear to be anyproblem with guttering from what I can see.
Being a plumber I could move the rad, but theres a bit more work to it in that theres a laminate floor down already, so dont want it to be wasted if my efforts are fruitless.
another damp issue is downstairs in our bathroom. It would've used to have been an outhouse WC which was then extended, knocked through and converted into a bathroom. There is only a towel rail in there, which does get used for its purpose, tiled floor and plastered walls, (apart from tiles round the bath/shower obviously.) The damp in there is quite bad, appearing all around the window frame (double glazed) and also on the opposite wall which is also external. The towel rail is on neither of these walls. There is no extractor fan in there, so am hoping fitting one in the new year, and stain block on the plaster will eradicate the problem in here. On other forums though they suggest an extractor fan not always being the answer.
Would it be better installing one which is constantly running (given that its said that vapour from drying clothes migrates to cooler rooms?)
I've tried to be pretty concise here
but if you need any other answers please ask. I realise many of you probably get sick and tired of answering the same questions daily!
I've had a brief look around on here and have seena couple of threads possibly relevant to my problem, but want to start a new one so I can give you the facts without confusing them with a nother user.
I bought a house 18 months ago. The lender wanted withold £1k due to some damp traces, which they then waivered as with the house being 100 years old they said it was nothing unusual.
Its a mid terrace house with the rear of the building facing South. In the third bedroom upstairs (which was formerly a bathroom) in the corner of the room, damp has been appearing for the last couple of months. This bedroom is South facing if that makes any difference! (its also the outer wall)
We have the heating on often enough during the winter and don't have a tumble dryer, so the heating is used to dry clothes too. There are no air bricks/vents in that room. The radiator is on an internal wall that backs on to the neighbours. If I moved the radiator, to underneath the window (much nearer the damp patches) would that eradicate the problem? If not are we just talking general condensation down to 'lifestyle' as someone else mentoned in a different thread? Or could the brick work outside need repointing? There doesn't appear to be anyproblem with guttering from what I can see.
Being a plumber I could move the rad, but theres a bit more work to it in that theres a laminate floor down already, so dont want it to be wasted if my efforts are fruitless.
another damp issue is downstairs in our bathroom. It would've used to have been an outhouse WC which was then extended, knocked through and converted into a bathroom. There is only a towel rail in there, which does get used for its purpose, tiled floor and plastered walls, (apart from tiles round the bath/shower obviously.) The damp in there is quite bad, appearing all around the window frame (double glazed) and also on the opposite wall which is also external. The towel rail is on neither of these walls. There is no extractor fan in there, so am hoping fitting one in the new year, and stain block on the plaster will eradicate the problem in here. On other forums though they suggest an extractor fan not always being the answer.
Would it be better installing one which is constantly running (given that its said that vapour from drying clothes migrates to cooler rooms?)
I've tried to be pretty concise here
but if you need any other answers please ask. I realise many of you probably get sick and tired of answering the same questions daily!
