Damp Floor?

[Doofus]

My lounge is wooden floored (with underlay and carpet), over a two or three foot deep cavity. I've got airbricks around the exterior walls, opening into this cavity, and they are all clear.

I've just noticed that there are small patches of damp showing as mould on the bottom of a leather sofa, so I assume some damp is rising through the floor (and the underlay and the carpet).

What can I do to stop it?

[B17NNS]

How can the damp be rising through the floor?

Sounds like condensation to me.

Give the sofa a good clean, maybe with some mould or mildew cleaner and keep an eye on it.

[Simpo Two]

Doofus said:

I've just noticed that there are small patches of damp showing as mould on the bottom of a leather sofa

I blame DFS. Get them to fix it

[Doofus]

B17NNS said:

How can the damp be rising through the floor?

That's what I thought...

B17NNS said:

Sounds like condensation to me.

Give the sofa a good clean, maybe with some mould or mildew cleaner and keep an eye on it.

OK, will do. Thanks.

[Doofus]

Simpo Two said:

I blame DFS. Get them to fix it

I'll have you know this is a proper (fakking expensive) sofa, paid for all in one go!

[eps]

So the carpet isn't damp, but the sofa is?

It isn't one of those things where they've left some bags, of anti-damp (!) stuff inside the sofa is it? Maybe these are damp and now releasing the moisture..?

[Doofus]

eps said:

So the carpet isn't damp, but the sofa is?

It isn't one of those things where they've left some bags, of anti-damp (!) stuff inside the sofa is it? Maybe these are damp and now releasing the moisture..?

I can't say that the sofa is damp as such. It's leather, and it certainly doesn't look wet, just little mould patches (which brush off easily).

If they're left some silica inside the sofa, then it is inside. I don't want to cut the bottom open to see if there's anything there. I certainly can feel anything through the base in the areas where the mould is.