Damp Advice

whodafunk

Hi,

Looking for opinions\advice as to what might be the issue here with rooms in a house. This is evident in every room - not to the same extent as in the pics. Clothes smell damp in wardrobes, mould growing on some items

Cheers

henryporter

Probably the usual suspects - lack of ventilation and insulation. Are clothes being dried in the house. Are there mechanical extracts (fans) for bathrooms and the kitchen?

If you own the house conifer installing permanent vents in all habitable rooms, extraction in bathrooms and kitchen, insulation in the attic and if possible or necessary in/on the external walls. Also consider installing a Nuaire positive input ventilation system - I put one in and got rid of all mould (although it wasn't as bad as what you have there)

whodafunk

henryporter wrote: »

Probably the usual suspects - lack of ventilation and insulation. Are clothes being dried in the house. Are there mechanical extracts (fans) for bathrooms and the kitchen?

If you own the house conifer installing permanent vents in all habitable rooms, extraction in bathrooms and kitchen, insulation in the attic and if possible or necessary in/on the external walls. Also consider installing a Nuaire positive input ventilation system - I put one in and got rid of all mould (although it wasn't as bad as what you have there)

Thanks for the reply.

Clothes not dried indoors. Bathroom with electric shower (no vent or extractor fan in bathroom). 4 bedrooms - only small vents in 3 with very little airflow actually getting through.

mad m

This looks more like a leak. Are you living in a house or apartment.

2 stroke

This looks more like condensation than damp. Has to be a source of moisture somewhere, if its not drying clothes, could be steaming food, tumble dryier venting into house or concrete curing, combined with lack of propper ventilation/heating. Mold will normally be worst on coldest walls but moisture will be coming from warmer rooms.

whodafunk

Thanks for the reply. It is a house.

Would the mould/damp from the first picture be a health risk to children?

PeteFalk78

whodafunk wrote: »

Would the mould/damp from the first picture be a health risk to children?

Yes absolutely.
Is pic1 from a kids bedroom?
Are all the pics from the same room? If not, can you tell what the room is used for?
Do you own the house?

Day Lewin

We had that exact same problem in a rented house. Every cupboard and wardrobe, and walls, even some corners of ceilings in the northern rooms.
When we left I bleached all the walls etc but looking back at the rooms with all the furniture out, I could see clearly that it was rising from the floor upwards and was worst on north facing external wall.
Problem was almost certainly with the damp-proof course - an oldish house: either didn't have a DPC at all, or it had been breached or bridged.
So no amount of tweaking the heating, ventilation or moisture etc. would really have fixed it for long. (Just glad it wasn't our own house!!)

2 stroke

whodafunk wrote: »

Thanks for the reply. It is a house.

Would the mould/damp from the first picture be a health risk to children?

Whatever about the mould, the lack of fresh air is a health risk. Do you ever open the windows. When you clean the mold off, what do you use and how quick does it return?