Hi all,
I recently bought a 1920s semi-detached cavity walled house which (unknowingly) had a boiler leak for what I can only assume has been from August until January - which is when I bought the property and discovered the drip and fixed it. The boiler was enclosed in a externally walled corner cupboard. I noticed some red rusty-dust that seemed to reappear the day after cleaning the floor in this area (!!).
After ripping up the laminate flooring, and the cupboard that the boiler was in, the corner-most floorboards got sucked up by the Henry Hoover - not ideal!
Ripping up a few of the floorboards revealed a rotten joist end and a copious amount of fluffy white stuff on the joist and the one next to it. I treated the area with fungicide whilst waiting for my air bricks to arrive which resolved a lot of the immediate concern. After adding the air bricks I've been left with the attached pictures - would anyone be able to let me know how much trouble I was in/am in (the fluffy picture is from when I had yet to spray the fungicides)?
The subfloor is now dry and the new air bricks have a good breeze coming through them directly onto the joist areas that were previously wet. My main concern relates to the fern strands that are on the brickwork as well as on the subfloor void itself as they go further than the immediate area I've ripped the floor up from.
I recently bought a 1920s semi-detached cavity walled house which (unknowingly) had a boiler leak for what I can only assume has been from August until January - which is when I bought the property and discovered the drip and fixed it. The boiler was enclosed in a externally walled corner cupboard. I noticed some red rusty-dust that seemed to reappear the day after cleaning the floor in this area (!!).
After ripping up the laminate flooring, and the cupboard that the boiler was in, the corner-most floorboards got sucked up by the Henry Hoover - not ideal!
Ripping up a few of the floorboards revealed a rotten joist end and a copious amount of fluffy white stuff on the joist and the one next to it. I treated the area with fungicide whilst waiting for my air bricks to arrive which resolved a lot of the immediate concern. After adding the air bricks I've been left with the attached pictures - would anyone be able to let me know how much trouble I was in/am in (the fluffy picture is from when I had yet to spray the fungicides)?
The subfloor is now dry and the new air bricks have a good breeze coming through them directly onto the joist areas that were previously wet. My main concern relates to the fern strands that are on the brickwork as well as on the subfloor void itself as they go further than the immediate area I've ripped the floor up from.
