Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lostinrates · 21 October 2013 at 12:09PM

Last week I bought a dehumidifier from Aldi (I think, it might have been lidl) and I am amazed at the amount of water I have so far sucked out of my house.

Its my new favourite game, guess the humidity of the room.......

I know our existing bathroom (so far gone not worth worrying about?) and the current dining room are the most damp, one because there is water running in it, one because its poorly ventilated and unheated (its the room that's been left coldest because its least vital and the window is sticky so hard to air) .

Thinking about getting another dehumidifier.....maybe a quieter one......

(Oh, in the bathroom, last year we had a sort of toad stool growing out from the loo, this year we have a small green plant growing from the skirting board. I keep meaning to take a picture of it before pulling it out. It's so grubby in there I am scared to clean floor now as pretty sure its going to fall in next time I scrub...! ).

LydiaJ · 21 October 2013 at 12:25PM

lostinrates wrote: »

(Oh, in the bathroom, last year we had a sort of toad stool growing out from the loo, this year we have a small green plant growing from the skirting board. I keep meaning to take a picture of it before pulling it out. ).

:eek: We need pics. Definitely before you pull things out.

lostinrates · 21 October 2013 at 12:26PM

LydiaJ wrote: »

:eek: We need pics. Definitely before you pull things out.

Hmmm. Its very filthy, not so sure I care to share pics of such a filthy corner!

Edit, ok, actually, I have little shame. The black marks AREN't filth. They are probably some dreadful sort of damp rotting the Lino from underneath. And that grim skirting board is because of the stupidest bath design ever where water is funnelled over a lip when you clean it, or if condensation drips off it, and then drips on the the skirting and rots it. You cannot clean it because it just rots, and we've left it on just to try and shield what's underneath a little. None of this stage was meant to take so long!

As SOON AS THE NEW BOILER IS IN, the bathroom floor comes up, this bathroom comes out and the pipes to new bathroom get connected. We know the floor has gone (feels like a trampoline, must be a hell of a leak from bath). Then the whole lot can dry out and we see if any of what's there in the way of joists is salvageable or not.

neverdespairgirl · 21 October 2013 at 12:36PM

lostinrates wrote: »

My grandparents really weren't that interested at all. My grandmother was a nursing sister then a community nurse, and proud of the 'letters after her name' but always somewhat amazed she had them, certainly didn't believe that any route other than work was for the likes of her or hers.

My grandmother (Dad's mother) was a nurse, too, as were all of her 4 older sisters. She had to pack it in when she married, though, or at least, after the war, a couple of years after her marriage. She thought the idea of nurses learning nursing at college missed the point, it should be learned on the job (as she had done).

LydiaJ · 21 October 2013 at 12:40PM

lostinrates wrote: »

As SOON AS THE NEW BOILER IS IN, the bathroom floor comes up, this bathroom comes out and the pipes to new bathroom get connected. We know the floor has gone (feels like a trampoline, must be a hell of a leak from bath). Then the whole lot can dry out and we see if any of what's there in the way of joists is salvageable or not.

We are all longing for your new boiler to be in so that we can be confident that you're not making your health worse by living in the cold an damp. In the meantime, please be careful. We don't want a bathful of water (with you in it) to overcome the rotten joists and come crashing down to the ground floor. Actually, it can't, can it? You haven't got enough hot water for a bath, have you? Regrettable as that may be, perhaps it's safer.

lostinrates · 21 October 2013 at 12:51PM

LydiaJ wrote: »

We are all longing for your new boiler to be in so that we can be confident that you're not making your health worse by living in the cold an damp. In the meantime, please be careful. We don't want a bathful of water (with you in it) to overcome the rotten joists and come crashing down to the ground floor. Actually, it can't, can it? You haven't got enough hot water for a bath, have you? Regrettable as that may be, perhaps it's safer.

The thing that's getting scarier is going to the loo where our floor feels like it mainly consists of duct tape. I mean that stuff is good but.......

:rotfl::rotfl:

Fed up of waiting and doing NEW boiler interview with someone on Friday. Ironically he is actually the first boiler guy who looked here as part of a quote with one of the builders who quoted before doozers took the job.

I honestly had no idea until this how difficult heating people were to pin down. Negotiations are like blood letting, and asking for scheduling behind their quotes is like plucking armpit hair.

Edit: we have a weak electric shower over the bath...compounding water penetration issues unfortunately. When its hot I realised I can take the top of the shower and fill the bath that way, but in a cool,room the heat dissipates too quickly.

Dh offered to put the heater in there this weekend warm the room and run me a bath that way...mainly because i have sore crampy legs a bit atm, and hot baths really help, but I decided to only a few more weeks what ever happens.

Any time people visit they might be forced into the bath to enjoy the wonders of plumbing which they think of as utterly normal, lol.

michaels · 21 October 2013 at 12:57PM

We have one of those weather things which as well as a baromter also has a thermometer and humidity gauge. When I am worrying about the kids breathing I sometimes try it in each room to see how we are getting on. I'm not really sure where all our humidity goes, as well as the cooking stuff (we only have a recircualting cooker hood not an extractor) we dry all our clothes inside, all our windows are sealed DG, we don't run the extractors in the bathrooms and DH irons for England using a steam generator and yet we don't have any signs of damp and the humidity is not too high - we do keep the place heated warm 24/7 but still all that moisture must be going somewhere...