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Posted By: revorWhat are your ceilings made from would they be lath and plaster?. I once had a Victorian house and replaced some of the lath and plaster ceilings with duplex board (foil backed plaster board) particularly the bathroom. Just with living in a house causes a phenomenal amount of moisture which will find way through ceilings if porous including plasterboard. It can often happen that when you insulate a loft area it becomes that cold that the high humidity air getting in there condenses out and the ventilation in the loft area may not be sufficient to move it. What is the ventilation in the living areas?. A work colleague never had trouble with condensation in his loft until he put extra insulation in there. He found out about it when water started dripping through the ceiling fitting in the bedroom. The vapour was not just going up through the light fitting in the bedroom but through all of the ceiling.
Prior to the extra insulation the loft was warm enough so that the air did not get to the dew point.
Posted By: tonyDesperate measures would be to fit a fan to suck air out of your loft , this would be replaced by drier air from outside
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Posted By: deniance I’m in South Wales, Cardiff ish
Posted By: djhbxman asked: "how about a link to last years post"
I suspect it was the epic at
http://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=16335" rel="nofollow" >http://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=16335
Posted By: tonyI don’t like the continual water/wet coming in via chimney, you are fighting a loosing battle with a source of wet , please can you post a pic showing the outside of the chimney please.