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Hi All,
Doing some work on floors and a particular room is giving me a bit of stress. One room I've lifted the floorboards in and the oversite is dry, dusty to touch. Another room at back of house (pic attached is a different story). It's patchy at best, with some areas apparently dry and you can see from the pictures one side of the sleeper wall is noticeably damper (moisture meter flashing above it's 2% max for stone/brick etc).
There is one air brick in bottom left of the floor plan picture which is open and air flowing. I've run a dehumidifier in the room for quite a while now, windows open, been no rain now for quite a bit and it doesn't appear to be drying up. The outside walls of the room have few hairline cracks in the render and there's a downpipe on the corner (where airbrick is) but some investigations around this show it's not leaking.
The top left of the room on the picture, behind that wall is a radiator with pipes under concrete and not too far away is the hot water cylinder, again with couple of pipes running out, assume towards that radiator.
Could it just be the case of water soaking up from the ground below and there's nothing I can really do about it or should I be exploring further for a leak somewhere?
Thanks
Doing some work on floors and a particular room is giving me a bit of stress. One room I've lifted the floorboards in and the oversite is dry, dusty to touch. Another room at back of house (pic attached is a different story). It's patchy at best, with some areas apparently dry and you can see from the pictures one side of the sleeper wall is noticeably damper (moisture meter flashing above it's 2% max for stone/brick etc).
There is one air brick in bottom left of the floor plan picture which is open and air flowing. I've run a dehumidifier in the room for quite a while now, windows open, been no rain now for quite a bit and it doesn't appear to be drying up. The outside walls of the room have few hairline cracks in the render and there's a downpipe on the corner (where airbrick is) but some investigations around this show it's not leaking.
The top left of the room on the picture, behind that wall is a radiator with pipes under concrete and not too far away is the hot water cylinder, again with couple of pipes running out, assume towards that radiator.
Could it just be the case of water soaking up from the ground below and there's nothing I can really do about it or should I be exploring further for a leak somewhere?
Thanks