Oh dear .......

....... more money into the house repairs.

We've been noting an increasing problem with damp in the wall - we found it difficult to understand, as it is in the 2008 extension, which was of course built with cavity walling.

Today some damp experts (as in "experts in dealing with damp", rather than "slightly soggy experts") came and took chunks out of the wall.  The plaster board should, apparently, not come quite down to the bottom, leaving a gap between it and the floor, and that explains why it is rising up the plaster board.  But it doesn't explain where the damp is coming from in the first place.  It appears to be coming up from below.  There is no evidence it is coming in from outside.  Is it just that there isn't enough damp proofing of the concrete pad?

Or horror of horrors - is it that our underfloor heating has a leak?  The boiler has been losing pressure; we had blamed that on a slightly leaky radiator in the en suite.  That is now isolated from the system, but we noted today that the pressure has dropped noticeably.

They will be back.