If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Hi all! We have been experiencing an issue on site where threads have been missing the latest postings. The platform host Vanilla are working on this issue. A workaround that has been used by some is to navigate back a page or two to re-sync the thread and this will then show latest posts. Thanks, Mike.

Damp walls

oulu · 2006-11-18 17:12:52

I had to hang curtains for an old aunt todat, she lives in a terrace house built in the 1950,s, I noticed the front bedroom had no vent and the front wall where the window is seemed to be damp with the bad whether we have had lately. I suggested she leave the small window open as much as possible in the bedroom. also a few…

18-11-2006 6:12pm

#1

oulu

Closed Accounts Posts: 330 ✭✭

Join Date: February 2006

Posts: 251

I had to hang curtains for an old aunt todat, she lives in a terrace house built in the 1950,s, I noticed the front bedroom had no vent and the front wall where the window is seemed to be damp with the bad whether we have had lately. I suggested she leave the small window open as much as possible in the bedroom. also a few years back she got the gas and the boiler is in the same room, should she get a proper vent kangoed out ,and since the wall seems damp will that naturally dry out with air been let in to the room. Is it common for old council houses not to have vent,s especially this been a terrace house, other rooms all have vents except the front bedroom. could there be permanent damage.
is it easy enough to just get a masonary drill and drill the hole then put up the vents against the holes, is that all there is to it and how big should the hole be

0