I've had a leak from the laundry room into the bedroom. This has gone along a cabinet (bad ballofix) along the drywall (the wall) behind the baseboard down towards the bedroom. Half of the laminate floor has been destroyed. We have now removed everything. The concrete has become almost completely dry after 8 hours. - Turned on the floor heating. The wall is worse. Drywall. At the bottom completely soaked. About 60-80 cm from the floor holds about 36-40%! 120-140 cm = 17%.
Put on a small dehumidifier and drilled holes in the drywall. Just above the floor joist. Had to tear off the wallpaper so that I can wallpaper over the holes again. Turned a shoe dryer into God knows what. Gently blowing this air into the wall into the insulation...
Even if it dries, mold may have started to grow on the board. But maybe you discovered the leak early?
mexitegel said:
Have you talked to the insurance company? They usually come out with a real dehumidifier lightning fast?
What is happening now should be that you are heating the moisture that is rising up in the wall instead of letting it leave the wall.
That's right, there are insurance companies too...
When we had water damage in a wall, we got compensation from the insurance company to do the work ourselves. So there's no reason to skimp, especially with the risk of mold and stuff like that.
The concrete likely feels dry now, but if it got soaked through, only the surface is dry. Concrete takes several months to dry, ideally by air-drying naturally.
Okay, I'm not going to comment on how quickly plaster dries because I simply don't know. Personally, I would have probably removed some of the plaster anyway. Then the extent of the damage is visible.
And you don't have any moisture barrier in the laundry room if I've understood correctly? Even though the leak is fixed?
A "real" dehumidifier is working at full capacity as well. We have 96% RH outdoors and 52% RH indoors.
Good, I'm not an expert in moisture remediation, but I've only had the dubious privilege of experiencing a major flood. They then set up desiccant dehumidifiers with hoses that extracted air from the walls and opened up the walls. They came back at regular intervals to measure the moisture levels. It took almost 2 months before they were satisfied.
We also received compensation from the insurance company to restore the property ourselves and compensation for the electricity used by the dehumidifiers. The dehumidifiers didn't cost anything.
I suspect that with the shoe dryer, you are just pushing the moisture further into the wall. Do you have any ventilation elsewhere so that any moisture that might evaporate has somewhere to go, otherwise it will just travel upward in the wall? However, it will stay there.
Edit: just saw that Mexitegel replied the same thing. Sorry for the nag
I suspect that with skid jacket you are just pushing the moisture further into the wall.
Do you have any ventilation elsewhere so that the moisture that eventually evaporates has somewhere to go, otherwise it will just travel upwards in the wall. However, it will remain there.
Edit: just saw that Mexitegel gave the same answer. Sorry for the repetition
Why not just remove the plaster and dry it out thoroughly? It doesn't cost much to screw in a new plasterboard and put up some strips of wallpaper.
Doesn't cost. True. I can't find this wallpaper anywhere. If it doesn't dry in a week, it will be new plasterboards and new wallpaper throughout the bedroom.
Doesn't cost. True. I can't find this wallpaper anywhere. If it doesn't dry in a week, there will be new drywall and new wallpaper in the whole bedroom.
Can't you find renovation wallpaper?
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mexitegel said:
