Hi all
This is not a vaping topic, but hopefully if I explain my experience, someone may be able to offer some advice or help. I am really upset and quite panicked. I don't know who to turn to, so will ask my fellow forumites. Please guys, if any of you have any experience on this, I will be helluva grateful.
Today, my wife spotted green mould growing on the wall at the back of the built-in cupboard in our bedroom. It was quite a lot of mould and she keeps her clothes in this cupboard. She actually uses the bedroom cupboard exclusively for her clothes, I use a cupboard in another room. The affected cupboard spans the length of the room. The mouldy part was on one side only.
The clothes are all out now and I have investigated the cupboard very carefully. The walls themselves do not feel wet to the touch at all, neither does the ceiling. I also removed the bottom pieces of the cupboard and checked the concrete floor and its bone dry. However two or three bars of soap we have in the cupboard do have some droplets on them. Some of her hanging clothes feel slightly damp. I have checked and felt every nook and cranny in the cupboard. There are no leaks or any visible water anywhere.
I feel so bad for her since she is very upset about this.
We are in a townhouse unit on the first floor. Our clothes cupboard back wall is the exterior wall of the complex building. It is a brick wall. Painted outside and white paint/plaster on the inside. The cupboards are those normal Sembel-it chipboard type cupboards. Our room is not well ventilated and we sleep with the windows and doors closed. Sometimes in the mornings in winter, our windows will steam up a bit (I suspect from the heat from us in the room and the limited ventilation). We have been here for 5 years and never had this problem of mould on the back wall of the cupboard.
Do you think the excessive rains for the past 2 weeks in Joburg could have raised the general humidity in the room and caused this? Or do you think there is another more serious problem? My wife thinks that the water is coming through the back cupboard wall. She says the brick wall is porous and water comes in even though you can't see it. She says that the cupboard I use in the other room doesn't have this problem because its back wall is an internal wall, not an external wall. I really don't know.
We don't know of any leaks externally on the wall - neither are there any water pipes in the walls anywhere near the cupboard.
I really don't know what to do. I suppose one has to call in the damp experts and get them to check but I am scared that they will suggest a solution that costs mega bucks that may not be the real problem. Aren't there some chemicals one can put in the cupboard in the meantime until we find a solution that will "suck" up the humidity in the cupboard?
Just wondering if any fellow forumites have had a similar problem and may be able to offer some advice on
on either what could be causing this or how to go about solving it.
Sorry for the lengthy post, but I thought its best to describe it in detail...
Please help
This is not a vaping topic, but hopefully if I explain my experience, someone may be able to offer some advice or help. I am really upset and quite panicked. I don't know who to turn to, so will ask my fellow forumites. Please guys, if any of you have any experience on this, I will be helluva grateful.
Today, my wife spotted green mould growing on the wall at the back of the built-in cupboard in our bedroom. It was quite a lot of mould and she keeps her clothes in this cupboard. She actually uses the bedroom cupboard exclusively for her clothes, I use a cupboard in another room. The affected cupboard spans the length of the room. The mouldy part was on one side only.
The clothes are all out now and I have investigated the cupboard very carefully. The walls themselves do not feel wet to the touch at all, neither does the ceiling. I also removed the bottom pieces of the cupboard and checked the concrete floor and its bone dry. However two or three bars of soap we have in the cupboard do have some droplets on them. Some of her hanging clothes feel slightly damp. I have checked and felt every nook and cranny in the cupboard. There are no leaks or any visible water anywhere.
I feel so bad for her since she is very upset about this.
We are in a townhouse unit on the first floor. Our clothes cupboard back wall is the exterior wall of the complex building. It is a brick wall. Painted outside and white paint/plaster on the inside. The cupboards are those normal Sembel-it chipboard type cupboards. Our room is not well ventilated and we sleep with the windows and doors closed. Sometimes in the mornings in winter, our windows will steam up a bit (I suspect from the heat from us in the room and the limited ventilation). We have been here for 5 years and never had this problem of mould on the back wall of the cupboard.
Do you think the excessive rains for the past 2 weeks in Joburg could have raised the general humidity in the room and caused this? Or do you think there is another more serious problem? My wife thinks that the water is coming through the back cupboard wall. She says the brick wall is porous and water comes in even though you can't see it. She says that the cupboard I use in the other room doesn't have this problem because its back wall is an internal wall, not an external wall. I really don't know.
We don't know of any leaks externally on the wall - neither are there any water pipes in the walls anywhere near the cupboard.
I really don't know what to do. I suppose one has to call in the damp experts and get them to check but I am scared that they will suggest a solution that costs mega bucks that may not be the real problem. Aren't there some chemicals one can put in the cupboard in the meantime until we find a solution that will "suck" up the humidity in the cupboard?
Just wondering if any fellow forumites have had a similar problem and may be able to offer some advice on
on either what could be causing this or how to go about solving it.
Sorry for the lengthy post, but I thought its best to describe it in detail...
Please help
