There's something nasty under the stairs. I pulled back a layer of grotty carpet and then some very old lino to find whole ecosystem of woodworm and the edges of the timbers could just be crumbled. It is bizarre as the rest of the floor boards seem in really quite good shape so I'm not sure if its just the original strip that ran along the damp, uphill wall, rotted out and then was replaces by these planks overlaid at right angles. When I poked about with my screwdriver the actual underfloor beam felt solid so hopefully its just that this has been kept soggy.
fingers crossed. On the plus side, behind the ply covering the surrounding wall is a really nice original tongue and grooved planked wall in just the smoky teal colour that I want to repaint it, spooky! Again the floor is double carpeted, synthetic dark blue laid over, well just really, snot coloured industrial quality carpet tiles, of a texture more suited to cleaning saucepans!
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