Damp / Wet in new build

caeler

If it is a new build then surely the first 2 years of your 10 year warranty (such as NHBC or similar) is covered by the builder so you should be calling them? If the property is only 7 months old then no amount of drying washing inside/ showering with no ventilation could ever cause that amount of damage - unless you've been flinging water at the walls?! Speak to your builder/investigate what ongoing support/snagging they offer.

happycamel_2

Do you stand in the bath to shower? Try standing it and then see if it drops and flexes away from the seal so the shower water runs down the wall and then under the bath rather than in to it. We had this problem, it was invisible unless you were stood in the bath. DH built a wooden support skeleton around the bath (behind the panel) and then resealed.

ash28

Money_Bunny wrote: »

Aaah, you don't get to my age without having spent a fair few hours tracking down the source of mysterious damp patches! Last Friday morning saw me scrabbling round under the kitchen sink.

If its by a wall which has a bath on the other side my guess would be its the obvious - something to do with the bath. Can you get the bath panel off?

Not hearing dripping doesn't necessarily signify much. Water has an amazing capacity to seep noiselessly.

We had a leak behind the sink in the kitchen and knew nothing until I thought I could smell a damp smell in the carpeted diner area....nothing seemed wrong...later I was in the diner in bare feet and the carpet was wet....I touched the walls and they were spongy....

We had to remove the panel from the back of the under the sink unit and found we had a leak and the water had managed to travel about 15 feet around the walls......we put a jug underneath the drip until we could get it fixed.....it took 2 days to fill a 1 pint jug....I wouldn't like to think how we had had the leak. Everything dried out eventually....so, yes, not hearing water dripping means nothing.