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woke up one morning and the wall is wet, how?

  • 25-02-2012 12:08pm
    #1
    CamperMan
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    woke up one morning and the wall is wet, how?

    OK,

    one morning, i go downstairs and into a spare room, i open the door and 3 walls are soaking wet from the ground up to a height of about 5ft, the day before, it was OK.. you can see the wall is wet with staining and the wallpaper is bubbling...

    the house is an old house built in 1840, the walls are stone / rubble, we have just gone through several weeks of sub zero temperatures right down to -28 deg c... the ground frost went down to 60 cm

    the thaw came last week and its now about 10 deg c..

    any ideas?


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  • #2
    gillad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 368 ✭✭gillad


    Was this spare room heated?
    Did it dry out itself?
    Have you a ghost?:D


  • #3
    CamperMan
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    gillad wrote: »
    Was this spare room heated?
    Did it dry out itself?
    Have you a ghost?:D

    the room had a small oil filled radiator on very low


  • #4
    gillad
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    Are the 3 wet walls external walls?


  • #5
    wait4me
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    CamperMan wrote: »
    woke up one morning .... we have just gone through several weeks of sub zero temperatures right down to -28 deg c... the ground frost went down to 60 cm...the thaw came last week and its now about 10 deg c..

    Did this happen recently in Ireland?? -28 deg C??


  • #6
    CamperMan
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    gillad wrote: »
    Are the 3 wet walls external walls?

    1 external, 2 internal


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  • #7
    CamperMan
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    wait4me wrote: »
    Did this happen recently in Ireland?? -28 deg C??

    it happened this month... , not in Ireland, but in East germany.. :D


  • #8
    gillad
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    CamperMan wrote: »
    1 external, 2 internal

    Strange...I havnt a clue.
    maybe an underground spring/stream got affected by the frost.


  • #9
    mad m
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    Did the snow build up way past the DPC maybe?


  • #10
    CamperMan
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    mad m wrote: »
    Did the snow build up way past the DPC maybe?

    there was very little snow,


  • #11
    CamperMan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭CamperMan


    gillad wrote: »
    Strange...I havnt a clue.
    maybe an underground spring/stream got affected by the frost.

    the water table is about 2.3 metres below ground....


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  • #12
    TopTec
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    I had the same problem. Noticed yesterday 1 internal and 1 external wall in a room off the kitchen in an old 1820's part of the cottage. Not running wet but passing your hand would collect the moisture. I have had the window open in there as it was dry yesterday. No heating in there either.

    I reckon it is condensation because of the rise in temp outside.

    TT


  • #13
    mark5
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    because the ground under your house is wet after the hard frost and will rise as a vapour into the atmosphere your house is old and probably has no damp proof in it


  • #14
    CamperMan
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    TopTec wrote: »
    I had the same problem. Noticed yesterday 1 internal and 1 external wall in a room off the kitchen in an old 1820's part of the cottage. Not running wet but passing your hand would collect the moisture. I have had the window open in there as it was dry yesterday. No heating in there either.

    I reckon it is condensation because of the rise in temp outside.

    TT

    that is how our walls are...


  • #15
    TopTec
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    mark5 wrote: »
    because the ground under your house is wet after the hard frost and will rise as a vapour into the atmosphere your house is old and probably has no damp proof in it

    No frosts here for ages. very wet though. The floors in the older part are only 1" concrete on compacted soil. Have replaced one but two still to do. Once I get heating in there it should improve.

    TT


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