Hi we all live in a 1930s appartment block.
Since the Clean Air Act of 1952 the fireplaces that were originally designed to correctly heat the building using coal have been blocked up and will probably never be in use again.
This leaves the place very cold obviously.
Central Heating cannot be installed as the flats are too small and the whole place is well nigh impossible to insulate properly so heatwould just fly out the windows.
Besides the expense for such a large building would be prohibitive.
However this is about damp.
The building appears to have a vague damp "problem"worse in some quarters than others.
the construction is red brick on steel girders.
Do you think the abolition of the chimneys warming the wall and subsequent tinkering have made this place "obsolete"?
We can see no solution but total demolition and start again?
Of course no Council would ever have the guts to reccommend this solution...
Damp seems to be seeping through from soaked windswept outer walls in winter that never seem to dry out quickly to make the inside walls often cold to the touch with black mould patches tending to form high up in places where there is contact with outer walls only.
Condensation forms even when the place has all the windows open and
has been unheated!!!!!!
In cold mid Winters icicles can be found in the indoor toilet and bathroom!
This 80 year old obsolete place surely needs demolishing?
Please advise?
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BUY IOLITE VAPORIZER
