There’s a lot of concern from Jamie about my symptoms or lack of, but I can’t tell what are symptoms or what are just aches and pains from working hard removing skirting boards in readiness for new flooring? If I am honest I am more achy than I would expect from just doing a bit of DIY I also am a bit sniffly but not that much and I feel overly tired for the amount of work I have done but again not excessively. I spend about 4 hours working today similar to yesterday and took a long hot bath afterwards and once I got downstairs for tea I felt ok no worse than I would normally so symptoms….maybe but nothing much so far?
The project removing the skirtings is going well, I removed the hallway and under the front window which had quite bad damp which I had always believed was due to poor brickie work when the house was built because the damp at the bottom of the stairs was caused by this and cured by my Dad who removed the mortar that had dropped into the cavity breaching the damp course and the damp went away, so when I noticed the same thing happening under the window I assumed I need to clear the cavity under the window. I mentioned this to Karl who straightaway said why not try moving the sofa away from the window to allow more airflow and that got me thinking, the curtains were down to the floor and the sofa is pushed back almost to the window sill. When I removed the skirtings under the window today the wall paper was wet and mouldy but the wall behind it was bone dry confirming to me that Karl was correct the damp is cold moist air trapped behind the curtain condensing when mixing with the warm air of the living room.
Our plan is to have new flooring but also to get rid of the sofa and other furniture and replace them with a corner sofa and an armchair under the window and also get rid of the curtains and replace them with blinds, both these things would naturally cure the damp because there would be air flow all around the window area so we just need to decorate the area and it should be fine, which is a lot better than the upheaval the cavity scenario would have been.
Uncle Karl saves the day again, he’s good’un really!
