Damp floor

[diyhellhelpme]

I’ve taken up my kitchen floor. It’s had Lino put down and then carpet over the top. It was down when I moved in 7 years ago. Anyway, I’ve started taking it up and I can smell damp when I’m very close and there’s damp patches and mould. What do I do now?? I’m a total novice!!

Is it concrete? Post a couple of pictures.

Depending on how bad it is, you'd likely have to remove both carpet and lino, seal the concrete and replace whatever flooring you want. Not a complicated job to fix cosmetically but depending what's causing the damp, it could be expensive. I wouldn't want to fix the damage without finding out what's causing it.

I’ve removed the Lino and the carpet. Only found the damp once I removed it.

So where the line is, is the end of the self leveling that’s been put down under the link

Difficult to make any analysis from that.
I’d leave it like that for a while and see what happens to it.

Possibly the 'lino' (do you mean vinyl?) under the carpet has been 'sweating', as HB says leave it to dry and see.

Yeah vinyl I think. Big sheets of the stuff stuck down. It’s strange that the damp is only where it’s been lay if that makes sense? It smells of damp
but not massively over powering

Another part of the floor