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    Damp on ceiling in loft bedroom conversion

    Thanks for your advice. I really don’t think any waters coming in from outside though, I checked in the hatch above the loft today and saw no evidence of any water leaking and it had just been raining. These patches have been visible for the entire time I’ve been in the house (around 10+ years)...
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    Damp on ceiling in loft bedroom conversion

    Hi everyone, I’ve got damp patches on the ceiling in our loft conversion bedroom. I can’t see any signs of damp anywhere else apart from this particular area on the ceiling. The wall feels wet to the touch where it meets the ceiling. We’ve checked in the hatch area above the loft and can’t see...
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    PERSISTENT DAMP!!

    Is there anyway this isn’t even damp? It doesn’t feel wet to the touch, could it just be something to do with the plaster and the paint sticking more to certain areas? Before we had the damp proof course installed the walls felt sticky to the touch
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    PERSISTENT DAMP!!

    How do I control the humidity? We leave the windows open ajar for around an hour a day. I just don’t get why the hallway floor was so wet but the lounge floorboards feel absolutely fine. I’ll take some pictures of the outside ASAP but if it was a problem outside why would it only be affecting...
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    PERSISTENT DAMP!!

    Is there anything I can do to rectify this?
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    PERSISTENT DAMP!!

    The other side of that wall is the kitchen and to the left is the hallway. In the lounge there’s wooden floorboards under the carpet and in the hallway there were quarry tiles but these looked visibly wet they were that damp so they’ve put this concrete damp proof layer on top of them but I can...
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    PERSISTENT DAMP!!

    Hi all, I live in a property built around 1910 that’s semi-detached. We’ve had a problem with damp on 2 of the internal walls. We had a damp proofing company come out who recommended that we take around 1m of the plaster off, drill holes and inject membrane into the walls and re-plaster. I mist...
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