Damp In The Workshop

[CHJ]

If you need to shift it quickly then a fan heater directed at the spot would help move it into the air to be collected by your dehumidifier I would have thought.

 

[Mike.C]

Thats an idea, thanks Chas.

Another question about tanking. As I said above, two of the bricks started to crumble (about 1/4 of the thinkness), and if the damp has done this won't it still carry on behind the tanking, and maybe even damage more bricks?

Cheers

Mike

 

[Digit]

The short answer to that is yes. Tanking only stops the ingress of the water, not the damage it can do. Also to be considered is that once the water can no longer pass through the wall its level in the brick work can rise higher so that it is necessary to tank well above the present damp level. Sorry!

Roy.

 

[Mike.C]

Digit wrote,

The short answer to that is yes. Tanking only stops the ingress of the water, not the damage it can do. Also to be considered is that once the water can no longer pass through the wall its level in the brick work can rise higher so that it is necessary to tank well above the present damp level. Sorry!

Roy.

No problem Roy, at least it has helped me make up my mind to just leave it alone, because as I have said when the area is kept clear theres no problems. It's going to look a bit of a mess because I cannot even paint it but it is under the bench so it is not too bad.
I suppose I can count myself lucky that I never found it a lot later when much more damage could have been done.

Thanks to those of you who took the time to reply.

Cheers

Mike

 

[Digit]

The fact that you've started to use the shop again, (cheers!) will in itself improve matters as the air circulation should improve. Hopefully you should see less water in the de-humidifier over a period of time.

Roy.

 

[Mike.C]

I am sure your right because the smell has almost gone already.

Cheers

Mike

 

[CHJ]

Mike if you want to tidy up the appearance once you have it 'dry'. Use a porus media, modern equivalent of the old fashioned lime wash so that the wall can still breath and let the moisture out.

See earthBorn 'Claypaint' from here as one example: http://www.earthbornpaints.co.uk/products/faqs.htm

If you put aside the advertising blurb there is some useful reasoning here.


I would have thought that there may be such with a fungal inhibitor built in from elsewhere.

 

[Mike.C]

Many thanks for the link Chas. :lol:

Cheers

Mike

 

[Anonymous]

The fact that you've started to use the shop again, (cheers!) will in itself improve matters as the air circulation should improve. Hopefully you should see less water in the de-humidifier over a period of time.

Roy.

Very true Roy. I have just started to use my workshop again after a longish 'holiday' decorating indoors. It smelt damp and there was some black/greenish staining on the inside of the roof boards and some white 'yuck' growing under one of the mats on the floor. The smell was so strong I was working with the door open, despite the cold. Having spent a couple of weeks now re organising and tidying it i've noticed the smell has gone.

 

[Digit]

Since the development and use of injected damp courses in old properties damp in houses is now a rarity, but any of the forum members of my generation will be very familiar with the smell, and the sights associated with damp dwellings.
Happily a thing of the past.

Roy.