If the apartment has increased dampness, then condensate, unpleasant smell and mold appear on the walls, floor or ceiling. Ticks or other bucks can even settle here. Of course, this leads to damage not only to furniture, books, linen, but the entire building. It is very harmful for people to be in a wet room – allergies, colds and fungal diseases, asthma may begin.
So that the moisture does not penetrate the room, it is necessary to check whether the roof is intact, and if there are cracks in the walls, whether the water pipes are adjacent and whether the waterproofing of the windows is broken. Also, excess moisture is formed due to human life, and if the room is rarely ventilated, it accumulates and the microclimate is disturbed.
What can be done if there is dampness in the apartment? We offer some advice to the master who wants to understand everything himself: firstly, you need to start with the establishment of the cause of damp. For this, it is necessary to inspect the places of its appearance. If the wall, the outer part of which goes outside, is completely raw, then it is either too thin or poorly insulated. Then you can do this on your own from the inside with materials intended for this.
The cause of increased dampness is poor waterproofing of the basement or foundation, the flow of pipes or poor ventilation. In this case, its traces will appear at the bottom of the wall and on the floor next to it, there may even be whitish traces. Then the waterproofing must be strengthened, and maybe put it again. But this is a way out for those who live in a private house, residents of high -rise buildings should turn to their housing and communal services.
The damp at the top of the wall in the apartment on the top floor speaks either about the flow of the roof, and if it is also the outer wall of the house – about the depressurization of the temperature seam. These works are performed outside and appropriate specialists.
After the dampness is eliminated, you can start getting rid of mold (only after that cosmetic work will go, where the most pleasant point is the choice of wallpaper). First, washed the place where the mold developed, then cleaned, completely removing it from the surface of the wall, and then dried. The next step is chemical processing to kill fungi and microbes and prevent their subsequent appearance. However, caution should be observed with them, as they are poisonous, and after processing it is necessary to ventilate the room. But when there is no visible flow and traces of mold, but it is clearly felt that the apartment is too moist – it may be worth acquiring a moisture meter to establish it with it, is it really so. In the case when the dampness is really large, you can drain the air with a moisture absorber, or maybe it will be enough to simply ventilate the room regularly.