What do you think happened to the floors in this house?

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Front room red carpet and loft bathroom. Both have very stained floors but the ceilings look ok. pic here

Rising damp?

Looks like damp to me too

Murder… there’s bodies under that patio

Gosh, they are a mess. Damp? Roosting bats or birds ? Someone fancied themselves as a painter?
its a cute house otherwise.

either rising damp or else it was flooded at some point - the patio and garden look pretty waterlogged to me.

pretty little cottage but ouch at the price!

Look at the damp in those walls! How on Earth could you contain that!

Lovely but needs gutting

Don’t know but I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole.

Owners spontaneously combusted in each and every room.

Other than that it's an old property built before they had such things as damp proof courses and it's been covered in non breathable plaster etc so the only place for the water to release is through the floor. It's probably an old stone floor under that carpet and the ground is probably higher than the floor outside

That house is damp damp damp. The carpet is rotted not stained. Look at the walls.

They had a huge soirée and everyone was murdered. The carpet is full of dead body juices.

Or damp.

Probably damp.

Looks like flood damage

I can smell the damp from here. Grim

I suspect someone has thrown some paint at the ceiling and walls.
It definitely looks damp could possibly be flooding from a burst pipe or a hole in the roof that's caused it rather than rising damp. Looks like water has gone down the wall.

I'd be insisting on a full structural survey and possibly get rot specialists to look at it before bidding.

Looks like a hoarders house, the attic is especially rvealing. There is a single bed sized rectangle shape that is clean, then there is dirt from dust, newspapers, clothes, boxes etc. The really manky bits are from rotting food, pizza boxes, tins, unwashed plates etc.

The front room also looks like rotting food areas but its not as obvious. Maybe the dining room looks so damp bc it was piled high and therefore no air flow?

I do wonder why they bothered to upgrade the kitchen and bathroom but didn't bother with very cheap carpet offcuts to hide the floor.. the attic would have costed less than £200. Would have been worth the investment imo

That house has a damp problem. Run for the hills!

I wonder who lived there, I imagine that carpet squelches when you walk on it.

When I moved in here, even with a L3 survey unable to lift carpets, I discovered the floors are all rotten - I've got wet/dry rot and woodworm in one floor boarded bedroom, the other rooms are cheap chipboard and all wet and black with mould. Wouldn't have moved in if I'd known.

Interesting. If it's damp, why is it in the middle of the rooms and the internal wall? Has there been an artist?

Weird though. Why wouldn't you replace the carpets? Or even just strip to expose the floor boards?

I do wonder why they bothered to upgrade the kitchen and bathroom but didn't bother with very cheap carpet offcuts to hide the floor..

Even stranger that the sitting room has obviously been painted recently and "staged" with bookshelves and a chair on top of the filthy carpet.

Wow its so pretty, but RIDDLED with damp in the walls!
I guess from a combination of an old roof that needs replacing (so damp coming in from the top) and a tiered garden channeling rain towards the house (so damp coming in from the bottom).

That is exactly what I thought when I looked at the photos!

Half a million quid!

Damp. Shame, it’s a lovely house.

The plants growing against the front of the house are a bit of a giveaway. Looking at it I feel as though I want to almost physically wring it out like a dishcloth!
It seems very expensive to me considering the amount of work it needs.
Just as an aside, I live in an area of high groundwater, and some (old) local houses can have water coming up through the floors in wet weather - not just damp, but actual standing water. I wonder if that is what's happened here.

It's the electrics that would terrify me!