tillywiz Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 Hello from darkest somerset Just found out we have a bad case of wet rot must have been there before we purchased the house .Life just got a whole lot more difficult now i have fresh air at both ends of the house ,long story no time now but the curious will find out later. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeSharp01 Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 Looking forward to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alphonsox Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 Hi and welcome to the forum, I grew up in darkest Somerset so know it well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tillywiz Posted June 10, 2017 Author Share Posted June 10, 2017 We are just on the s somerset border,bought a place last year did everything right had survey but like always surveyors have a cop out.The other night at about 1.30 crashing noise heard could not see anything wrong but by about 11 today one part of the floor had sunk 3 inches.managed to retrieve the fridge freezer and decided we had to find out what was going on.The flooring joist had totaly collapsed and the rot has extended across the kitchen about 10ft looks like dry and wet and we stongly suspect wood worm to .At the moment we are keeping our fingers crossed that the floor to ceiling fireplace does not fall down before we remove it.we have one very large hole and always trouble comes at the weekend. we were supposed to be having the garage converted to a usfull space but one estimate is a laughable £50.000 some builders do not turn up at all and so far two old dears have removed a chimney complete with asbestos flue and dug up a concrete floor 19ft by 18ft by hand .started to knock through to get the floor level right then todays disater happened at the other end of the house.The garage is single skin and needs internal walls and all the other things involved to make the place usefull.So i will be needing lots of help and advice to sort out before winter sets the electricty box was so high up even standing on a step ladder i could not see it let alone reach it to flick a swtich if the supply went off so the supply had to be moved and we are now £700 lighter for that to be done. More of the saga later i feel a book coming on that is if the whole place does not fall down before i get aroun to it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stones Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 Welcome to the forum. What type of survey did you have done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 Welcome. Sounds like an unfortunate set of circumstances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickfromwales Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 Welcome aboard . Always ALWAYS remember, there is someone out there having a much worse time than you . Helps a little when you view the cup as half full . Keep your chin up ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tillywiz Posted June 11, 2017 Author Share Posted June 11, 2017 yep will do nick just looking at the survayors report again and he said the damp meter showed no sign of damp but floor joists do not disintegrate in a matter of 6 months and he said when the drop heel test was applied there was no sign of structural weakness ,that has to be the biggest joke of all . tommorow the preservation man comes to let us know the couse of treatment and cost he is very good and comes highly recommended he charged £150 for the woodworm treatment.will try and sort out pics but as my laptop got the black screen of death and my camera software was on it i always have to figure out how i use it on this desk top as him indoors says the steam jobby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickfromwales Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 Steam is a luxury. My desktop runs on charcoal. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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