Unstoppable Mold

[DIY67]

And you still have mould?

Not in the bathroom

 

[accelerator]

I have used storm dry on the outside bricks which let them breath for 25 years as well as stopping ingress.

I would still think carefully about the condition of your walls and roof in terms of water ingress possibility, as this has a high chance of being a causative factor.

If you can get hold of a thermal imaging camera to point at the wall, that may give you some clues.

 

[amfisted]

Log burners give off a large amount of heat in a relatively short time. If you have doors open in unheated rooms with cold walls and the significant heat from a log burner suddenly comes into contact with those walls, you get condensation. In our previous bungalow we had a very efficient log burner that I'd had installed in order to heat the entire property. Trouble was that once the heat from the log burner had built up in the lounge and I opened the door into the unheated bedroom, the walls began streaming with condensation. I cured the problem by having a radiator installed in that bedroom so that the temperature was maintained at a level where condensation couldn't form when the door was opened to allow the heat from the log burner into the room. I had a simultaneous problem with condensation in the loft because of excessive heat from the log burner rising through the ceilings and loft hatch and coming into contact with the cold underside of the roof sarking, but I cured that by increasing ventilation with soffit vents as well as cutting down on the use of the log burner.

If you plan on continuing to use the log burner, then you really do need to find a way to heat the entire property to eliminate the conditions in unheated rooms that create mould, and that probably means using the CH.

 

[foxhole]

Log burners give off a large amount of heat in a relatively short time. If you have doors open in unheated rooms with cold walls and the significant heat from a log burner suddenly comes into contact with those walls, you get condensation. In our previous bungalow we had a very efficient log burner that I'd had installed in order to heat the entire property. Trouble was that once the heat from the log burner had built up in the lounge and I opened the door into the unheated bedroom, the walls began streaming with condensation. I cured the problem by having a radiator installed in that bedroom so that the temperature was maintained at a level where condensation couldn't form when the door was opened to allow the heat from the log burner into the room. I had a simultaneous problem with condensation in the loft because of excessive heat from the log burner rising through the ceilings and loft hatch and coming into contact with the cold underside of the roof sarking, but I cured that by increasing ventilation with soffit vents as well as cutting down on the use of the log burner.

If you plan on continuing to use the log burner, then you really do need to find a way to heat the entire property to eliminate the conditions in unheated rooms that create mould, and that probably means using the CH.

Since when did heat create condensation?

 

[amfisted]

Since when did heat create condensation?

I'm simply providing the benefit ( hopefully) of my own experience with log burners and cold, unheated rooms. Presumably yes, there was humidity with that hot air and that's where the condensation came from in the circumstances I describe. The walls would literally be streaming just minutes after the door to the unheated bedroom was opened and the hot air from the log burner entered the room.

There was no heating in that room except an old gas wall heater that I refused to use because it was so expensive to run, so I had a radiator installed in there and the condensation problem went away.