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Cheers tsavage, have PM'd you. I have been looking at these PIV systems. I can see that it works by pumping filtered air into the house and therefore displacing damp air. Question is, how damp is the air outside? I've measured the humidity in the house at around 70% in winter which is...

Hi again, sorry for not getting back. I will point out again that I do take on all points made and appreciate that this is totally a condensation issue. Issue has been one of general skintness which has meant I haven't been able to do much. I did put a stud wall at the back of a downstairs room...

No,I have totally taken on board what you have told me and understand that condensation is my issue. What I'm trying to get my head around is whether it's worth doing anything to the walls to make them 'warmer' as it were or whether I should just attack the condensation. I suppose I need to get...

Thanks, that's the conclusion we are coming to. Problem is with putting extra stuff on the walls is that we have a lot of exposed lintels and odd returns etc. and not many straight walls but I suppose it would be possible in a lot of places. I was especially angry about having to vandex upstairs...

There is one called the Flatmate which has a duct from outside. Am I right in thinking these units just pump dry air into the house, thereby forcing damp out through any gaps? We have open vents on all windows. The double doors are not sealed and you can feel the breeze coming in and we often...

That looks good but we've got no lofts other than a small gap at the ridge of the roofs, probably barely big enough to crawl through. Would that be any good do you think?

Thanks, that's useful.

I think the problem is that they didn't specify a finish, just said it needed fully tanking. So I suppose we could have boarded it all or something. I'm sure they would have a get out. I'll have to look through the documents and see what it said if I can find it. It may have been verbal and I'm...

So if you were doing a barn today with walls about two feet thick, made of slate and old lime, how would you finish the inside, upstairs, assuming no visible damp problems? I wanted them just re-pointed but we've chopped them up a bit now for wiring etc. plus digging off the new render will...

Standard emulsion I think. Wood floors upstairs, stone downstairs. Got kids so toilet seat is all over the place :-). Doing all the rest is easier said than done to be honest, especially the amount of washing that three kids generate.

Thats James isn't it?

You mean get the air chisel out again? What a waste of time and money. Bloody building control. My instinct says that we should get back to stone and just lime plaster it. Like in the old days so that it breathes in and out. Or will that give me the same problem? I have lived in stone and cob...

Beenleigh is in our parish, about 2 miles from me. Was it the farmhouse? Not been there for ages. Kids go to Diptford school.

Please do tell. My thinking on this is that the air in the building is becoming damp due to humans / animals etc. the damp air had no good way of escaping / drawing in drier air as the walls cannot breathe any more like they used to. We have effectively water-proofed the walls so no damp can...

just outside Totnes

I should add that these are the interior walls I'm talking about. The outside of the building is left in natural stone.

Wow, thanks for all the quick replies. It's deffo condensation. It's quite a small barn and we weren't allowed to do much with windows etc due to planning restrictions. We have the heating cranked up and ventilate as much as we can. Our moisture meter reads 70 or 80 most of the winter. There...

Our barn conversion was done back in 2004. Building control insisted that the whole building was tanked in Vandex which seemed crazy at the time aside from a few downstairs areas but we had no choice. Our builder had never used it so sought advice and was told (I don't know who by) that you can...