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I've posted this to the agony Uncle but someone may be able to help here.
We recently moved into a 1930’s semi in chester.
We have started to lift an old hallway carpet and underlay to expose the original parquet flooring.
We noticed a few little damp spots on the corner of a few of the blocks. These have tended to be fairly loose so we have lifted them. There has been a lot of dirt between the blocks, which have a bitumen adhesive onto a concrete floor. The floor doesn’t look or feel damp.
The latest piece of underlay to be lifted was against the stairs, and again this appears to be quite damp. However it is the corner that is in the middle of the hallway and not up against the outside wall which is where I would expect it. The bottom timber riser of the stair appears damp.
Could this just be damp caused by the carpet and underlay, or damp coming up through the floor and between gaps in the bitumen?
We recently moved into a 1930’s semi in chester.
We have started to lift an old hallway carpet and underlay to expose the original parquet flooring.
We noticed a few little damp spots on the corner of a few of the blocks. These have tended to be fairly loose so we have lifted them. There has been a lot of dirt between the blocks, which have a bitumen adhesive onto a concrete floor. The floor doesn’t look or feel damp.
The latest piece of underlay to be lifted was against the stairs, and again this appears to be quite damp. However it is the corner that is in the middle of the hallway and not up against the outside wall which is where I would expect it. The bottom timber riser of the stair appears damp.
Could this just be damp caused by the carpet and underlay, or damp coming up through the floor and between gaps in the bitumen?