ᐅ Brown stains on the wall at the height of the ring beam – what should I do?
Created on: 4 Aug 2018 17:24
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scheuziHello,
We moved into our single-family home in April of this year. The interior walls were plastered last December and, after the drying period, were painted with silicate paint in March. Unfortunately, by late May/early June, we noticed stains appearing at the level of the ring beam on the upper floor—initially in one room, but over time in almost all rooms at the same height, showing through the paint. When we moved in, there was nothing visible here; the first stains only appeared at the end of May in two rooms. We have already shown this issue to our planner. He ruled out mold and suggested we wait a bit and then repaint that area in the fall. I understand it’s difficult to assess from a distance, but do you have any idea what this might be and how I should proceed? I find the planner’s response insufficient since the stains are present throughout the entire upper floor. Who would you recommend contacting for this—the structural carpenter or the plasterer? We have also scheduled an appointment with a building expert, but their soonest availability is at the end of October since they are fully booked. Attached is a photo where the stains can be seen upon closer inspection. The stains appear only at the height of the ring beam and vary in intensity in different rooms, but they are present almost everywhere. In some cases, especially with colorful wall paint in the children's rooms, they are not visible to the naked eye. My question is also relevant now as the exterior walls are currently being plastered.
I look forward to your feedback and would like to sincerely thank you in advance.
Best regards from Upper Palatinate,
Stefan
We moved into our single-family home in April of this year. The interior walls were plastered last December and, after the drying period, were painted with silicate paint in March. Unfortunately, by late May/early June, we noticed stains appearing at the level of the ring beam on the upper floor—initially in one room, but over time in almost all rooms at the same height, showing through the paint. When we moved in, there was nothing visible here; the first stains only appeared at the end of May in two rooms. We have already shown this issue to our planner. He ruled out mold and suggested we wait a bit and then repaint that area in the fall. I understand it’s difficult to assess from a distance, but do you have any idea what this might be and how I should proceed? I find the planner’s response insufficient since the stains are present throughout the entire upper floor. Who would you recommend contacting for this—the structural carpenter or the plasterer? We have also scheduled an appointment with a building expert, but their soonest availability is at the end of October since they are fully booked. Attached is a photo where the stains can be seen upon closer inspection. The stains appear only at the height of the ring beam and vary in intensity in different rooms, but they are present almost everywhere. In some cases, especially with colorful wall paint in the children's rooms, they are not visible to the naked eye. My question is also relevant now as the exterior walls are currently being plastered.
I look forward to your feedback and would like to sincerely thank you in advance.
Best regards from Upper Palatinate,
Stefan
Alex85 schrieb:
I'm not a professional Maybe you are, if you can even recognize anything there: I see a wall—partly white, partly pale green—and in one corner of the picture a glimpse of a roof batten. I’m not going to recalibrate my screen just to spot stains.
Amateur photographers often forget that others discussing the photo have no way of knowing what it actually shows. They weren’t there. Therefore, seemingly obvious details such as the shooting angle, whether the two images are from different rooms or the same room but from different perspectives, and of course references for scale (a finger in the picture, a measuring tape, or something similar) are extremely helpful to understand these guessing games.
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HilfeHilfe4 Aug 2018 18:27I see it too. Somehow milky coffee.
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