We decided to take a look at the damp issue at the front wall of the boys room. When I lifted the chipboard replacement floor boards the previous bloke had used (they are like cheap loft board and will fall apart with the first sniff of moisture) I found they had put plastic under the them, I am guessing they did this to stop the chipboard getting wet. The wall on the left is full of mildew all the way up to about 2 metres high. When we bought the house a company came in and told us we had rising damp but with a bit of research we found it is probably not that at all, it seems to be condensation causing all the damp problems.
In this picture you can see the water dripping off the bottom of the plastic it was so wet.
We cleaned out the only air brick into the floor in boys room and I installed two computer fans (in a block of pink insulation) on a spare car battery so now it runs all the time under the floor moving out the damp air and it seems to be working. When ever we open the floor it is never dripping wet, but we need to insulate the out side walls in order to stop the condensation forming in the first place!
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