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Originally Posted by Mej
if you rub all the mould off with Milton Sterilising Fluid it should not come back that is what we recommend to people.
I see it a lot, people who dont seem understand that if they dont vent their house and crank up the heating they will get mould.
Dehumidifiers can help a lot.
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Sorry. Don't agree with that. In my not inconsiderable experience in the building game I have found that one of the worst things you can do in a damp house / room is stick a dehumidifier in it. All a dehumidifier will do is drag more moisture through the wall. The best thing to do is fix the cause ( as much as possible anyway) then open the windows a little bit and shut the door on it. Once the room has dried out a bit, turn on the heating and leave the window ajar.
On a slightly different note, if your interior walls are hard finished (as opposed to dry lined or studded) try hacking the plaster off and letting them dry off naturally before replacing the plaster with a lime plaster. Most builders do lime and horsehair plastering these days. It'll let the walls breathe a bit and so reduce any moisture build up. Stone walls are a **** to work with as the material is inherently damp anyway so if your walls a stone rather than brick then you'll have a certain amount of damp anyhow. You'll just have to live with it. Having said that, if you really want to keep the wet out, you can always tank the interior walls but this is a costly thing to do and easy to do wrong.
Anyhoo, to get back on track, don't get a dehumidifier. They're completely innapropriate for your situation.
HTH
