So as we’re coming to the second sale and second survey of our house, the second surveyor found none of the issues the first one found, but a few of his own.
First and most worrying is what he claims is dry rot, although he said it might not be, but the surveys come back now and he says he thinks it is.
He never looked under the floorboards, never checked anywhere else for it.
The bay window floor area has dropped a little, and it a bit ‘loose’ or ‘bouncy’ underfoot. Has laminate floor on top.
we have decking outside above the vents.
Can anyone help me on this one at all ?
We have a section of wallpaper that has bubbled, to the right of the bay, where we had a leak upstairs a year or so ago (we never re decorated it). Which might have gone into the joists below ?
There’s no cellar, just an 18”-24” void underneath the floor.
The loose section of floor is where the sofa is in the pic, straight across the room.
Questions are, can you (or a surveyor) diagnose dry rot from a loose floor ? Has the decking made any difference to ventilation in the void ?
Could a prolonged leak from upstairs, through the floors, create it ?
Thanks all.
pics of inside and outside attached.