Bad damp on bedroom ceiling

Posted by june sullivan, on Mon 11 Nov 2013 07:18pm

I have really bad damp in corners of bedroom ceilings its quite wet

Michael Tucker

Tue 31 Dec 2013 05:36pm

Hello June, Welcome to the site. Check that you have good ventilation Best to get an on site survey/quotation done, this is a free service to you and you will get 3 quotes. Simply post your job onto rated people's site. You are not obliged to go with any of the quotes- but ever job that's posted is paid for by the relevant tradesmen.if they contact you that means they are interested in your job. If one of them are awarded the job then great news for you both. ratedpeople.com Regards Michael

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Andrew John Wheaton

Thu 14 Nov 2013 04:09pm

If it's in the corners of your bedroom I don't think it is a leak with your roof. Sounds more like condensation to me. Could be that your insulation in your loft has not been installed correctly ie it's not over the place where the problem is therefore making that part of the ceiling cold causing condensation. You could rectify this yourself or better still get your partner to do it.

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James Hollinsworth

Thu 14 Nov 2013 01:08pm

I would agree with Benjamin on the course of action. you can only be sure of this by lifting a few lower tiles and inspecting the felt, if it looks perished then the lower courses of tiles need to be removed and a DPC installed, we would then also recommend an EPS tray to ensure the water gets into the guttering, this job is likely to take around 3 hours based on an average sized property

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Benjamin Macann

Thu 14 Nov 2013 08:22am

Hi there could be a couple off problems .1 could be a hole in the felt lower down running into the cavity throu to the wall .2 but I would say bottom row off felt is gone next too the guttering and facia .this is fairly a common fault as birds tend to get in at the lowest point off roof .fairl easy to do remove 3row off roof tiles and insert felt where needed hope this helps .ben

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Chris Miller

Thu 14 Nov 2013 07:06am

Hi June There is a few reasons this could happen, lack of ventilation, a problem in the eaves of your roof, guttering may have failed and the fascia boards could be absorbing the rain fall. Hope this may have helped. Regards Chris

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